The lessons school forgot : how to hack your way through the technology revolution

Intro -- THE LESSONS SCHOOL FORGOT -- Contents -- About the author -- Preface -- Part I Revolution -- Chapter 1 A lesson about school -- STEM is not enough -- Time to unlearn -- The history of the present -- Why change hurts -- Incentives shape behaviour -- Hack the system! -- Chapter 2 A proxy for happiness -- The education tightrope -- The paperwork -- Formal now or formal later? -- Pull up your roots -- Chapter 3 The future is informal -- Discover the entrepreneur within -- Self-reliance needs a comeback -- The pace of change is super-radical -- It's time to just make stuff up again -- The formal institutions really don't get it -- Definitions really matter -- Success is a choice -- You're smarter than you think -- My school report -- Chapter 4 The future of work -- Your job is already gone -- An independent future -- The labour escalator -- The hierarchy of human needs revisited -- Ignore your weaknesses -- Strength-finding hacks -- The grade 3 hack -- The 10 per cent rule -- Quit quickly -- Follow your effort -- Economics is always major -- Part II Revenue -- Chapter 5 The truth about money -- Are you being or organising? -- Why ESTEEM matters -- Divide and conquer, economics style -- Learning to do both -- The jobs and growth hoax -- Chapter 6 Money isn't money -- Delivering against a future promise -- The three types of money -- 1. Earned money (wages or salary - high probability - low return) -- 2. Invested money (equity and property - medium probability - medium return and risk) -- 3. Invented money (entrepreneurship - highest risk - highest return) -- From ownership to access -- Wages, profits and tax -- Chapter 7 The seeds of greatness -- Spent money vs invested money -- Where did it go? The necessities confusion -- Society says spend -- Finance is a game -- The three places money can be stored -- 1. Cash -- 2. Property -- 3. Equity.