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Easy Education
by Easytochris
Easy Education follows a middle aged millennial on a quest for personal betterment. Having been homeschooled during all of his public schooling years, Chris uses AI in a more nuanced way to create a three year educational track for himself. Follow along for insights on education, as well as tips on how to use AI more effectively in your own quest for betterment.
Episodes
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Aperture: How Much of the World Stays Sharp
Second episode in the photography series, and this week it's aperture — the thing that decides how much of your photo stays sharp and how much melts into the background. I came in thinking I didn't really understand this one, and what I found out is I've been leaning on it for years in my…
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Shutter Speed: Freeze or Blur
This week we're taking the podcast somewhere new. Instead of one of our usual deep-dive conversations, we're kicking off a photography series — me actually learning the fundamentals of a craft I've been doing on instinct for years, with Atlas teaching and the two of us figuring out where my gaps...
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The Volume Knob
This week my photography's been on the gallery wall long enough to get real reactions — and the lesson was that the fear I'd built up in my head was way bigger than anything that actually happened. People either liked it or didn't even notice, and I'm still standing. That set up the real...
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A Religion of One
This week marks 2,000 days sober for me — and on the same day, my first-ever gallery exhibition opened at Endie Gallery, with two months of my wildlife photography on the wall. So we start there: what it actually took to admit I'm a creative, not just an engineer who solves problems. From there…
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The Cards Don't Choose You — You Choose What They Mean
Chris comes into episode two with an honest question: why has tarot always pulled him in, even though he knows it's partly his own pattern-seeking brain at work? What starts as a curiosity about mystic practice quickly becomes something more revealing — a live demonstration of how meaning-making...
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S02E01 - Stop Waiting To Be Ready
In the Season 2 premiere of Easy Education, easytochris reintroduces the purpose of the podcast: making education feel accessible, imperfect, and human. This episode lays out the new direction for the show, where Chris learns in real time with AI as a conversational cohost, not as a replacement…
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Week 15 - Authority & Trust
Reading: Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott) - Intro + Chapter 1 Lens: Why legibility is selective and dangerous. Focus: Why Institutions oversimplify humans.
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Week 14 - Why Good Intentions Fail
Reading: Thinking in Systems ( Donella Meadows) - Chapters 2 & 3 Lens: Feedback Loops & Delayed Consequences Focus: Why fixing symptoms makes systems worse
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Week 13 - Incentives Shape Behavior
Reading: Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows) - Intro + Chapter 1 Lens: Behavior Follows Structure, Not Attention Focus: Why people keep doing things they claim to hate
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Week 12 - Off Week
It's Spring Break!!! I didn't have any school this week, but that doesn't mean I didn't do anything. Check out this quick update before I come back next week to start Q2
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Week 11 - Q1 Synthesis
Before moving into an off week, I revisit all of the lessons from Q1 and explain how they compounded into an overall takeaway as I move into Q2.
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Week 10 - What schooling does well and poorly
Reading: Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl) - Pt. 2 Lens: Education vs. Indoctrination vs. Formation Focus: Where formal education succeeds and fails adults
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Week 9 - Tools that Help, Tools that Harm
Reading: Politics & The English Language Lens: Language clarity as a moral responsibility Focus: How sloppy language produces sloppy thinking
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Week 8 - Systems vs. Willpower
Reading: Atomic Habits (James Clear) - Chapters 11 - 14 Lens: Environment Shapes Outcome Focus: Why personal change fails in hostile systems
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Week 7 - Attention as a Moral Choice
Reading: Atomic Habits (James Clear) - Chapters 7-10 Lens: Attention as an ethical decision Focus: What you are implicitly choosing by what you attend to
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Week 6 - Off Week
I deserve a break too. This is a short ramble of how I'm synthesizing all of the lessons up to this point. Come back next week for more content around Atomic Habits
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Week 5 - The Role of Suffering in Growth
Reading: The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus) - First 30 pages Lens: Confrontation with discomfort rather than escape Focus: Why difficulty is not a design flaw
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Week 4 - Identity & Consistency
Reading: Atomic Habits (James Clear) - Chapters 4 - 7 Lens: Identity-based Behavior Focus: Why consistency requires identity change and not goals
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Week 3 - Meaning as a Stabilizer
Reading: Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl) - second half of Pt. 1 Lens: Meaning precedes endurance Focus: What actually sustains effort under pressure
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Week 2 - Discipline vs. Motivation
Reading: Atomic Habits (James Clear) - Chapters 1 - 3 Lens: Systems over willpower Focus: Why "motivation" is an unreliable strategy
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Week 1 - Why Self-Education Fails
Reading: Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl) - First half of Pt. 1 Lens: Meaning as Survival vs. Convenience Focus: Why most adults quit learning when novelty wears off
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Easy Education follows a middle aged millennial on a quest for personal betterment. Having been homeschooled during all of his public schooling years, Chris uses AI in a more nuanced way to create a three year educational track for himself. Follow along for insights on education, as well as tips on how to use AI more effectively in your own quest for betterment.
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