I’m definitely interested in reading about your understanding of the high growth cultures design problem (or scaling problem). I guess that you are talking about designing in-school cultures (or learning pod cultures or homeschool co-op cultures or even adult study groups or intellectual circles), but when I read “high growth cultures” I immediately think about the cultural groups in America that exhibit disproportionate academic success: the Jewish, the East Asian immigrants (plus other successful minorities described the The triple package book https://books.google.com/books?id=4F6MAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT3) and the American elites (what Matthew Stewart calls “the 9.9 percent” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/)
The Triple Package book aims to provide an explanation for why some groups "seize on education as a route to upward mobility”. It argues that education and hard work are not a good explanation for success; they are a “dependent variable”. Some of the key motivators described in the book are the constant sense of insecurity and a feeling of not being good enough. So I see a design problem there (although perhaps not the one you had in mind) and even if it was feasible, I’m not sure if is a good idea or not to scale insecurity.
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I’m definitely interested in reading about your understanding of the high growth cultures design problem (or scaling problem). I guess that you are talking about designing in-school cultures (or learning pod cultures or homeschool co-op cultures or even adult study groups or intellectual circles), but when I read “high growth cultures” I immediately think about the cultural groups in America that exhibit disproportionate academic success: the Jewish, the East Asian immigrants (plus other successful minorities described the The triple package book https://books.google.com/books?id=4F6MAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT3) and the American elites (what Matthew Stewart calls “the 9.9 percent” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/)
There seems to be a neo-strict school trend (https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/01/16/why-super-strict-classrooms-are-in-vogue-in-britain) trying to “scale” the East Asian disciplinarian style in schools (because I guess is easier than scaling the other styles)
The Triple Package book aims to provide an explanation for why some groups "seize on education as a route to upward mobility”. It argues that education and hard work are not a good explanation for success; they are a “dependent variable”. Some of the key motivators described in the book are the constant sense of insecurity and a feeling of not being good enough. So I see a design problem there (although perhaps not the one you had in mind) and even if it was feasible, I’m not sure if is a good idea or not to scale insecurity.