Some great stuff we read at the start of this weekend…

• What books would you recommend someone reads to improve his/her general knowledge of the world? Well, here’s a list in case you are searching for one.
• A glance at the library of Marc Andreessen, where some of Silicon Valley’s secrets are hiding.
• A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee.
• Avoid that white poison! How the sugar industry shifted blame to fat, and how it has distorted health science for more than 50 years.
• Your job may be at risk in the next Industrial Revolution. An interview with Ryan Avent about how technology will change the labor force.
• The rise of the superstars: A small group of giant companies are once again dominating the global economy. Is that a good or a bad thing?
• A nice infographic on learning how to learn
• A wonderful TED video on how to raise successful kids, without over-parenting…
  

  I guess what I’m saying is, we spend a lot of time being very concerned about parents who aren’t involved enough in the lives of their kids and their education or their upbringing, and rightly so. But at the other end of the spectrum, there’s a lot of harm going on there as well, where parents feel a kid can’t be successful unless the parent is protecting and preventing at every turn and hovering over every happening, and micromanaging every moment, and steering their kid towards some small subset of colleges and careers.

  When we raise kids this way, and I’ll say we, because Lord knows, in raising my two teenagers, I’ve had these tendencies myself, our kids end up leading a kind of checklisted childhood.

  And here’s what the checklisted childhood looks like. We keep them safe and sound and fed and watered, and then we want to be sure they go to the right schools, that they’re in the right classes at the right schools, and that they get the right grades in the right classes in the right schools. But not just the grades, the scores, and not just the grades and scores, but the accolades and the awards and the sports, the activities, the leadership. We tell our kids, don’t just join a club, start a club, because colleges want to see that. And check the box for community service. I mean, show the colleges you care about others.

• Why one should read history. Excerpt from Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus…

   

  

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