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The Future of Education: Taste Over Expertise
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Erik Torenberg raises the question of education's future in a world where technical expertise matters less and taste matters more. [1] — Rick Rubin "As AI absorbs technical skills, what becomes scarce and valuable is taste, curiosity, and open-mindedness. Rubin says he can't remember lea…" 1:11:10 Rubin's answer is simple and direct: taste, curiosity, and open-mindedness are where it's at — and he cannot recall a single thing he learned in school that has been useful to him in life. Ben Horowitz and Rubin agree that self-knowledge is a profound concept that gets unfairly tagged as narcissism by a society that lacks a positive word for it. Anjney Midha frames Rubin's overall message as 'vibing with yourself' — The Way of Code as a window into how Rubin applies his own creative process to every domain he enters. Rubin has the final word: the book is, ultimately, a 3,000-year-old manual on how to vibe with yourself — ancient wisdom dressed in the language of the present.
Rubin's core creative philosophy: make what you yourself love, and the right audience will find you — anything else is guesswork.
As AI absorbs technical skills, what becomes scarce and valuable is taste, curiosity, and open-mindedness. Rubin says he can't remember learning anything in school that was ever useful to him — and that self-knowledge may be the real curriculum of the future.
