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Outtakes
Hello. Thanks for coming by. I'm old, so my story's rather long, but you can click "Add comment" to interject in many places—just keep it to the point. Also, I'm not here, rich and famous, trying to seem like an ordinary guy. I've accomplished some things under the radar, working the intersticies. They may or may not be worth your time, but for you to judge that, I'll say a little about them.
I'll start with the title above, two little words—"wagering" and "life." As I see it, life consists in a sentience, however rudimentary, making choices with respect to what is given to it. And the wagering enters into life because life's sentience cannot fully grasp the worth and the complexity of what's given relative to life's effecting any choice.
Humans live extended lives, like many other kinds of life.
As I see it, life encompasses everything. That proposition presents serious difficulties because what I intend it to mean differs from common, nearly universal usage.
My Studiolo
I come here, attentvely, to reflect on interests and uncertainties, feeling troubled yet curious, buffered from immediate cares, responsive to unexpected remembrance, speculative while (or because?) I'm imperfectly informed, eager to follow clues that point to something promising, to something that will support me in my ignorance.
My ignorance — alive, I am uncertain; I never know what will happen next. Were the stone thoughtfully sentient, it would be certain that nothing would happen until external force jolted it into action. Alive, I come to mystudiolo owing to my ignorance. My ignorance arises, and continues, because I live, situated in time and space like the stone, but able to some degree, tangible however faint, to act, to initiate and sustain acting force within the realm of forces all about me.
Ignorance emerges, not from failings, not from excessive wants or needs, but from vital activity. My ignorance is the price of my living, embodied in vast space and restless time. In living, nothing exists; all emergesable to discern prospects fully or surely Here, it's my space where I recognize the value of things about me, seen and unseen, raising this up, lowering that, then reversing, this down and that that up, judging worth as I see fit, its possibility and its lack.
The Point (as in "What's the point?")
Arendt on Natality
Overcoming Identities
Seeking A Place to Study
Power and Pedagogy
The Cumulative Curriculum
The Dalton Technology Plan
The Eiffel Project
Smart Cities: New York
Formative Justice
On Not Defining Education
The Educators' Manifesto
Homeless in the House of Intellect
Enough
The Reflective Commons
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My worksite, a prototype of MyStudiolo
== Robbie McClintock == Robbie (talk) 08:44, 15 January 2025 (MST)