~ learning should ideally be embedded instead of isolated

I’m suspicious of isolated learning—learning for learning’s sake. I most enjoy learning when it’s part of some larger meaningful activity, and when it helps connect me more deeply with other people I enjoy

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Those experiences were primarily about doing something that I really cared about: creating something, participating in a community, answering a question, helping a friend. Learning and aesthetic pleasures came as a happy byproduct.

— ❐ Exorcising us of the Primer

• restating, in a way, ~ there must be a product