Michael Lance Whisenant

Alignment is All You Need

In a 2016 interview, Charles Fadel, the Center for Curriculum Redesign founder, stated “from the times of Socrates and Confucius, it has been obvious that what makes people successful in life is not only what they know and how skillfully they use their knowledge, but also how they behave and engage in the world. InContinue reading “Alignment is All You Need”

Learning to Be

In looking at our current educational institutions, the majority are structured to teach to specific outcomes (i.e., teaching to the test), as this methodology was applicable to the Industrial Age. Basic literacy and numeracy were taught as essential requirements for working in factories and military service. As nations further modernized, public education systems still taughtContinue reading “Learning to Be”

Systems Thinking, pt. III

To conclude the Systems Thinking series, I wanted to draw attention to another book I finished reading titled A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel. In it, Malkiel suggests that stocks are unpredictable in the short term and that passive investing, i.e., index funds, provide more stability in their holdings by diversifying riskContinue reading “Systems Thinking, pt. III”

Systems Thinking, pt. II

Disclaimer: I am not a financial guru, nor does anyone fully understand how the stock market operates. This article is my thoughts on human behavior and how Kahneman’s ideas pertaining to loss aversion and Prospect Theory, contributed to the Nasdaq dropping 3% and the S&P 500 dropping 1.5%. Yesterday, 1/27/2025, we witnessed a massive techContinue reading “Systems Thinking, pt. II”

Systems Thinking

I recently started reading a fascinating book titled Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. In it, he describes the two types of “systems” that our human brain has developed to make sense of our world and the actions we take to navigate it. System 1 is our fast-acting, stereotypical, bias-prone, judgmental, and reactionary mechanismContinue reading “Systems Thinking”

Paradigm Shift

To start, let this be the first blog post, in a series of posts, in which our human curiosity meets the future of technology. In doing so, we can reflect on our co-dependent relationships with our technologies and how, through simple allegories, we can better understand the nature of the beast we created. This beastContinue reading “Paradigm Shift”