It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness.
DFW's 2005 Kenyon speech, hosted on Farnam Street: the uncredentialed commodity is attention, not information. Twenty years on, still unanswered.
Farnam Street (Shane Parrish, hosting DFW)· 2026
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