Grokkist Press
Reading Room
A collection · read in any order
Teachers, researchers and former students look at what formal education gives, what it takes away, and what learning might look like if it trusted us more.
Surprise meSoma IslesEntangled Vale
In a world where knowledge is increasingly accessible, why does education so often miss the mark, and how might we get it back on course?
Surprise meUnfolding RealmWild Margin
We're often told that all of the knowledge of the world is at our fingertips, yet it can still feel impossible to find what we're looking for.
Surprise meWild Margin
First, we’re taught to comply. Then, to forget that we ever danced to our own rhythm.
Less aloneEntangled Vale
When choice comes at the cost of community, we may need to reconsider what freedom truly means to us.
Make senseEntangled ValeMaker's Forge
In a world flooded with content and hungry for context, what if the future of reading isn’t about books, but about reclaiming art, attention, and literacy through a return to the Didactic Muse — reviving bardic acts of gathering and sense-making in the algorithmic age.
Surprise meUnfolding Realm
If you could gift someone a life-changing learning experience, what would it be and why? We discuss the combined wisdom of 27 of my podcast guests and what it means for how we approach the practice of education.
Surprise meWild Margin
If we want to avoid letting school interfere with education – that is, if we want to avoid confusing how we do learning with what it's for – we will first need to deschool our minds. This is easier said than done.