Kio Stark, co-author of the Cult of Done manifesto, debut novelist, and instructor on the uses of technology in interactions with strangers, is running a Kickstarter fundraiser for her newest project, Don’t Go Back to School, a collection of memoirs from people who succeeded without university degrees. She’s interviewed me for the book already:
Don’t Go Back to School is a handbook for independent learning that shows you how to learn almost anything without school. If you’re thinking about going back to school or about the possibility of self-taught learning, read this book first! Don’t Go Back to School will help you figure out if you can do it on your own—and it’ll show you how. It might just save you a gazillion dollars in tuition fees, and spare you the yoke of student loans for years to come.
In Don’t Go Back to School, I’ll deconstruct the basic infrastructure that school provides—things like resources, expertise, evaluation, and a learning community. And I’ll profile fascinating, self-taught people, showcasing the practical ways they meet those needs. I’ve already talked to people like Cory Doctorow about learning to be a working writer, Dan Sinker about learning to code, Quinn Norton about learning neurology and psychology as a science writer, and a dozen others so far, with many more interviews planned.