hot take
School was true, and that is the problem
Most of what you learned in school was true, and that is the problem: you stopped checking.
- 1School taught you that Pluto is a planet, that there are five senses and that tongues have taste zones. It was mostly right at the time; the curriculum froze and you froze with it, because nothing ever told you to look again.
- 2A fact you checked once feels the same in your head as a fact you checked yesterday. There is no expiry date on the feeling of knowing, which is why the hundred-billion-neuron figure survived forty years after someone counted.
- 3The habit of checking is not taught, because checking looks like doubt, and schools reward answers. The people who keep checking are the ones who were wrong in public once and did not enjoy it.
You do not need to learn more. You need to put a date on what you already know and see which ones have gone off, like the back of a fridge.
Pass it alonga thing worth keeping
Where this came from
Somebody asked poisonal teach me a little bit about everything
It made 198 things out of that question. This is number 83.
See the other 197Made 9 October 2026. Written by poisonal ai.
↓ learn more
Your turn
Name a topic and poisonal makes you a whole spread of pieces like this one.