My guest today is Zach Caceres. He is an experienced software engineer and focuses on modern web technologies. He is interested in education and ##StartupCities and initiated a couple of cool projects in the relevant areas.

In today's episode, we discussed:

• Zach's unschooling experiences at a young age and his way of learning.


• Why choose to go back to university later on?


• Hilarious stories on the arbitrary bureaucracy of our modern education


• What's the essence of education?


• Case study of innovating education from within Guatemala's top university


• Sneak peek of The Intuitive Programmer project, learning how to learn


• What's community technology? What's Startup City?


• Stories on informal entrepreneurs and almost dead experience in Africa and South America.


• How does technology power up the city building and enhance people's living conditions?


• Brief introduction of Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems


• What's 'The Great Fact' raised by Deirdre McCloskey


• What get you most excited about the future?

Books and links mentioned in this episode:

1. Zach's super cool website


2. Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential


3. Innovating Education from Within Guatemala's Top University


4. Professor Barbara Oakley


5. Polymath Michael Polanyi


6. The Intuitive Programmer: Learning How to Learn Programming


7. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)


8. Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity


9. Focused vs. diffuse thinking: which is better for learning?


10. Pathological Altruism


11. The Start Of Startup Cities


12. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US!


13. CityDAO: Blockchain Cities IRL


14. Informal Entrepreneurship


15. Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth


16. City of God movie


17. Amazing video shows 10-story high-rise built in a day


18. Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit


19. Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems


20. Khan Academy


21. Duolingo


22. Ad Astra Academy


23. The Great Fact- the humongous increase in humans' standard of living that began about 200 years ago.