Launch announcement 🎉 🎉 Word-A-Day is open to everyone. Learn a word. Use it in a cast. Get scored. Climb the leaderboard. https://paragraph.com/@adrienne/word-a-day-is-live-on-farcaster

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Education is the single greatest catalyst for a promising career. The ROI on higher education in coveted fields such as medicine, law, or engineering is compelling. Unfortunately, some of the other subjects in which one can obtain an undergrad, masters, or doctorate degree, have a longer ROI. Additionally, with the advent of AI, some expect certain white collar jobs to diminish and others to disappear. Due to this uncertainty, some students are opting to get vocational training instead. The costs are generally lower and the time to finish is significantly faster. Importantly, the specialized practical skills learned during vocational training may be less likely to be replaced by AI. If the goal is a stable income that’s fairly insulated against inflation, higher education or vocational training are no longer guarantees of this, but they can play a pivotal role. This is what my wife and I tell ourselves every time we project out how much it will cost to put both our kids through college. 🤣

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Excited to have @adrienne back — our synergy is undeniable! See you in the GM!

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When my wife and I became parents, it was the most exhilarating and exhausting periods of our lives at that point. It was primarily just my wife and me raising our babies to toddlers then to preschoolers on to kindergarteners for the first 5 years of their lives. However, as they grew older, they had other influences from teachers, grandparents, parents of other children going to the same school, coaches, etc. and many of these influences were impactful and formative. Today, my children are already and in many ways, wiser than me. So much so that I wonder at the old adage about the proverbial apple falling from the tree and if maybe, when their apples fell, they rolled down the hill across the road and over the bridge to greener pastures. And still I wonder - is it really our superlative parenting skills or is it truer that it takes a village to raise our kids? The many and varied influences from the grandparents, to the aunts and uncles, cousins, teachers, coaches, and more, have mingled to produce a nurturing synergy that is helping these apple seeds to grow. And so it is that I wonder, will this fortunate confluence of events happen the same way it has for our children as it has my wife and me? I wonder.

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Today's word is "synergy." Can you use it in a cast? Yesterday's "impartial": 14 played · 9 passed · avg 12/15

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Friends of ours got divorced a few years ago and it was a messy and ugly affair. They have 2 wonderful kids together. It was the dad’s hope that they could reach an impartial agreement, but that was never going to happen. Someone cheated. Someone pretended to work things out with a counselor. Someone got into a fist fight with the person who the other cheated with. They say time heals all wounds and it’s true. However, the scars are jagged and visible.

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Today's word is "impartial." Can you use it in a cast? Yesterday's "latent": 16 played · 12 passed · avg 12.5/15

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/word-a-day

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The challenge for each of us is to leave the world a better place than when we got here. Shun the behaviors and actions that worsen the world. Revive those latent behaviors and actions that impart a net positive to everyone and to this amazing planet.

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Today's word is "latent." Can you use it in a cast? Yesterday's "validate": 16 played · 13 passed · avg 11.6/15

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Step #1 - add BETR WITH BURR app Step #2 - play /word-a-day by @adrienne Step #3 - go back to BETR WITH BURR app and click SCORE ME to validate your score Anyone who scores 14+ will win 420k $BETR

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Most people aren't looking for truth. They're looking for someone to validate what they already believe. Watch how people consume information. They're not exploring, they're prosecuting. Building a case for something already decided. The search isn't what's true, it's who agrees with me. The evidence is decoration. The infrastructure serves this perfectly. Algorithms that feed you more of what you already believe. Communities organized around shared conclusions. Media that knows exactly which reality its audience wants confirmed today. Nobody designed it this way, they just followed the engagement. Turns out validation is more compelling than almost anything else.

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Skimming feels like reading. It isn't. We've developed this ability to process surfaces quickly and mistake it for understanding. Headline, subheading, first paragraph, confident opinion formed. The brain fills the gaps with whatever it already believed and calls it research. Happens fast. Feels thorough. Leaves you exactly where you started, but now with citations. The cursory look is seductive because it's cheap, you get the shape of a thing without the cost of inhabiting it. And when everything is competing for attention, skimming is the only way to keep up. So we skim everything. Including the things that deserved better. Deep looking is what happens when you stay with something past comfort, past the first understanding into the second one underneath. Most ideas have a surface that makes sense and an interior that complicates it. The cursory look gets the surface, feels informed, moves on. More information almost never helps someone who hasn't processed what they have. Give a cursory thinker ten more articles and they'll skim those too, arriving at the same conclusion faster. The problem was never the quantity. One book read slowly and argued with changes you. A hundred books skimmed and you're just someone who's been near a lot of books. The answer was probably already there. You just didn't stay long enough to find it uncomfortable.

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Oops, I did it again! 🥳 I ranked #1 for "immutable" on Word-A-Day! Tied with @retalien.

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