"Range", by David Epstein, is the non-fiction book that has impacted me the most since reading "Radical markets" precisely a year ago.
The provocative thesis the books presents –an all out anti Malcolm Gladwell’s "Outliers" of sorts– has got me thinking. A lot.
The book connects directly with reflections on what future education should be like, and more concretely, it lays out the need to develop broad-based, highly adaptable critical thinking skills. And it does so from an angle that is highly complementary to others.
Which others? I can think of three. And an odd three, that is.
Firstly, Lambda School’s groundbreaking business model, flexing the ways in which it can earn a return from providing students with new capabilities valued by the labor market –coding skills in their initial proposition–.
Then, there is Singularity University’s emphasis on the required mindset to prepare oneself to face the future with confidence –a combination of exposure to exponential technologies and the world’s grandest challenges–.
Lastly, Spanish economist Jesús Fernández Villaverde and his May 23rd 2019 conference, where he boldly stated the case for a Madrid-based, civil society-founded, excellence-based university –for the Spanish speaking world–.
I do not yet know where this thinking will take me in the future, but I already have a code word for it: Sigma.
