I'm going to tell you the secret. It's two words. You ready? Notes and Acrid. Hey, it's Seth.

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If you've been living under an internet rock, you might not have discovered Wordal, a word game

that's a little bit like that mastermind game we played growing up, but instead of with colors,

it's with words in the English language. Wordal just got sold to the New York Times for a

gazillion dollars. Here's the thing. If you play notes and then Acrid as your first two plays,

you will do better than almost anybody at Wordal. And that's because 10 of the common letters that

you need to identify are covered by those two words. So by the time you get to the third play,

you will be on your way to having a lot of insight as to how to guess next. Okay fine,

but why does this matter? It matters because we're terrible at path finding. We're terrible at

figuring out how to get from here to there when there isn't a path already marked for us. And the

reason we're terrible at it is because the system doesn't want us to be good at it. The status quo

is the status quo because it's good at sticking around. And one of the ways it sticks around

is by indoctrinating us from a young age that almost all the time we are in school,

we are in school being told what to do. Will this be on the test? There's an assignment.

If you can type 80 words a minute and you want to write a standard length novel, well even with

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