At What Cost?
Trade-offs in provision, and how to write them down. Compared to What?, part 2.
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8 essays
Longer pieces, published on Substack.
Who Knows What?
Dispersed knowledge and the limits of professional authority. Compared to What?, part 1.
Compared to What?
Why Educational Psychologists Should Learn from Thomas Sowell: An Introduction to the Series
The Elite Illusion: when good outcomes tell us less than we think
Why exceptional outcomes and educational effectiveness are not the same thing
The 'Explorer Machine': A First-Principles account of ADHD
A(attention) D(imensions) in H(igh) D(efinition)
C Is for Constraints: When the Algorithm Starts Changing You and Choosing Your World
How personalised feeds can reinforce rigid or false beliefs, reward compulsive checking and disrupt how and what we perceive, believe and do
A Is for Autism
When Something Becomes Everything, Everything Becomes Nothing.
A Bad Explanation Can Become a Life Sentence
Why a first principles, ruthless self-awareness is all you need.
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