Ev BogueI have 5 years of conventional education.
I dropped out of kindergarten.
I didn't go back after freshman year of high school.
Eventually, I graduated from NYU in three years with two majors.
Now I'm 26 years old, so effectively an adult created out of the loose system of unschooling. Basically: don't tell me what to learn. I'll decide what I want to learn, when I want to.
Also, I'll decide what I'll unlearn too, when I want to.
This is a new section on my site. Let's call it: unlearning. Every week, until I decide to un-post schedule myself, I'll be writing an intention to unlearn something for that week.
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This week on unlearning...
I've decided that I have no idea how the Internet works. So, I've decided to unlearn it.
Whenever I think I've mastered something, chances are I've just achieved a false sense of entitlement. People with a false sense of entitlement I generally want to smack, unfollow, and put on my zombie wall.
So, I declare: I do not know how the Internet works. I do not know what it wants. I do not know what it needs.
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It's time for some unlearning.
Every time there's a major evolution in the Internet world, it upends everything. When Livejournal came along 12 years ago, nothing before it mattered much any more. When Facebook came along 8 years ago, we all forgot there was an Internet at all.
Now we're living in a new age. It's hard to put a finger on what changed about the Internet. It might be that everyone is viewing it from their phones, it might be HTML5 and CSS3 getting rolled out into the code everywhere, it may be there is an entire generation of children running amuck on the networks who don't know what the world looked like before the Internet.
Whatever the new paradigm is, it's time for some unlearning.
So I set an intention. Or rather, an un-tention.
Let's erase everything I think about how the Internet worked before. It's old knowledge.
It's time to reinvent how I experience the Internet.
Will you join me?