What are you working on? June 2011

jsalvatier

This is the third What Are You Working On? thread. Click on the 'waywo' tag to see previous threads. I'm going to do these every two months instead of every month from now on. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

This is the third What Are You Working On? thread. Click on the 'waywo' tag to see previous threads. I'm going to do these every two months instead of every month from now on. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

probably not the most efficient way to do it.

It sounds like you have a more efficient way in mind. If so, could you summarize it?

lucid dreaming

Fun stuff. I started doing this sometime between 8 and 12 years old after reading about it in a book. On two or three occasions I've remained conscious all the way through a nap.

It sounds like you have a more efficient way in mind. If so, could you summarize it?

Sure. As I pull together details I actually plan on posing them to the LW community here so get feedback and poll for interest.

I suspect that a semi-grassroots approach is more likely to affect education in a positive way than any educational research is at this point. I'm inclined to start a school of sorts that will freely throw out outdated assumptions about education and actually apply what we know from research, updating its practices as new findings come out.

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