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Looking Back / Looking Forward

🗓 August 7, 2018

Teens and Screens

🗓 May 24, 2018November 7, 2023

You Can’t Ruin Your Kids

🗓 April 26, 2018November 7, 2023

Life Update / Spring 2018

🗓 March 17, 2018

Hail the Almighty Diploma

🗓 March 15, 2018November 7, 2023

Are Teenage Brains Really So Different?

🗓 February 8, 2018

2017 in Review

🗓 December 13, 2017

Tools for Building a Cheap and Meaningful Gap Year

🗓 November 24, 2017

How to Get Stuff Done as a Self-Directed Learner

🗓 October 12, 2017

Career Trajectory Update

🗓 September 7, 2017

What if It All Falls Apart?

🗓 July 12, 2017

What Does it Mean to Be Educated?

🗓 May 15, 2017November 7, 2023

Who I Want to Be at Age 35

🗓 April 2, 2017

My First Online Course: The Way of Adventure

🗓 March 18, 2017January 20, 2025

2016 in Review

🗓 December 27, 2016

Book Review: The World Beyond Your Head

🗓 December 15, 2016

How to Take a Self-Directed Gap Year with Zero Starting Funds

🗓 October 31, 2016March 12, 2024

Failure Survey, 2015-2016

🗓 October 29, 2016

Book Summary: Deep Work by Cal Newport

🗓 October 23, 2016

The Problems with the 10,000 Hour Rule

🗓 October 1, 2016

Do I Own My Business, or Does it Own Me?

🗓 September 9, 2016

Trip Report: Kings Canyon High Basin Route

🗓 August 31, 2016

Announcing: Off-Trail Learning & How to Live Nowhere

🗓 August 2, 2016

How to Be Interesting

🗓 April 24, 2016

Is Following Your Passion a Bad Idea?

🗓 March 19, 2016

Pay Yourself in Time, Not Money

🗓 January 31, 2016

What I’m Doing in Guatemala

🗓 January 7, 2016

2015 in Review

🗓 December 30, 2015

What I’ve Learned (and Relearned) About Myself This Year

🗓 December 18, 2015

Success Story

🗓 November 8, 2015

New Unschool Adventures for 2016/2017

🗓 November 6, 2015

Teens: How to Write Two Important E-mails

🗓 November 1, 2015

Freedom Businesses

🗓 October 30, 2015

Andy Weir on Self-Publishing

🗓 October 21, 2015

Autumn 2015 Life Update

🗓 October 7, 2015

20 Non-Awkward Ways to Meet People While Traveling Solo

🗓 September 8, 2015

Patrick Farenga on Self-Directed Learning

🗓 August 25, 2015

Tomis Parker and Nancy Tilton on Agile Learning Centers

🗓 August 11, 2015

Liam Nilsen on the Endor Initiative

🗓 August 1, 2015

Interview with Isaac Morehouse

🗓 July 20, 2015

Japhy Dhungana on The Value of Global Education

🗓 July 14, 2015

Mid-2015 Life Review

🗓 July 7, 2015

Amy Milstein, Maya Milstein, and Maddy Platt on Unschooling in NYC

🗓 June 30, 2015

William Deresiewicz on Excellent Sheep

🗓 June 16, 2015

Lucas Isakowitz on Unschooling, High School, and Alaskan Fishing

🗓 June 2, 2015

Ben Paul on Dropping Out of Law School in Germany

🗓 May 26, 2015

Reflections on Podcasting

🗓 May 19, 2015

Misha Golfman on Wilderness Semesters

🗓 May 19, 2015

Ask John Taylor Gatto a Question

🗓 April 17, 2015

Pat Farenga reviews The Art of Self-Directed Learning

🗓 April 16, 2015