<p>What happens when you walk away from a hyper-optimized New York life to immerse yourself in learning one thing? <a href="https://realravigupta.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ravi Gupta</a> explains why he moved to Italy to study cooking, rebuild his attention span, and escape phone-and-dating-app brain rot, drawing on previous "skillbaticals" devoted to powerlifting, screenwriting and surfing. Then Gupta digs into his five-part series <a href="https://thebranchmedia.org/show/where-the-schools-went/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Where the Schools Went</em></a>, tracing how post-Katrina New Orleans rebuilt its schools as an almost all-charter system, what worked, what broke, and what the rest of the country should—and shouldn’t—try to copy.</p><p>This episode was taped at <a href="https://www.ptknitwear.com/podcasts/about-the-podcast-studio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">P&T Knitwear</a> at 180 Orchard Street — New York City’s only free podcast recording studio.</p><p>Send us an email with your thoughts on today’s episode: <a href="http://
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