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NEVER ENOUGH: Achievement Culture, Happiness, and the Future of Learning

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Join us for a lively, provocative conversation on how achievement culture is affecting the mental health of our kids, not to mention the rest of us, with Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of the New York Times bestseller Never Enough, and Daniel Markovits, author of the acclaimed 2019 book The Meritocracy Trap—moderated by Next Big Idea podcast host, Rufus Griscom. Following the panel discussion, the conversation will continue at an optional VIP dinner(limited availability).

Why are teens so stressed? Can we encourage them to strive towards excellence without crushing them? How will AI and other new technologies alter the work we do? And with these changes in mind, should we be raising and educating our kids differently?

These are the questions keeping parents and educators up at night—but with a little help from Jennifer, Daniel, and a few cocktails (and mocktails), we hope to start discovering the answers.

when

Wednesday
November 1, 2023
5:30 pm

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street • New York, NY 10014

agenda

Speakers

Jennifer Beheny Wallace

Author
NEVER ENOUGH: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic, and What We Can Do About It
Biography

Jennifer Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It.   She is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and appears on national television to discuss her articles and relevant topics in the news.  

After graduating from Harvard College, Wallace began her journalism career at  CBS “60 Minutes,” where she was part of a team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a Journalism Fellow at The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Jennifer serves on the board of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, where she lives with her husband and their three children.

Daniel Markovits

Guido Calabresi Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Biography

Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law.

Markovits works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He publishes in a range of disciplines, including in Science, The American Economic Review, and The Yale Law Journal.

Markovits’s new book, The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin Press), places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes up the law, economics, and politics of human capital to identify the mechanisms through which meritocracy breeds inequality and to expose the burdens that meritocratic inequality imposes on all who fall within meritocracy’s orbit.

Rufus Griscom

Founder
Next Big Idea Club
Biography

Rufus Griscom co-founded Nerve.com, Babble.com, and most recently the Next Big Idea Club. He has discussed consciousness, AI and virtual worlds on the Next Big Idea podcast with thinkers like Steven Pinker, Yuval Noah Harari, Paul Bloom, Steven Johnson and David Chalmers.

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Join us for a lively, provocative conversation on how achievement culture is affecting the mental health of our kids, not to mention the rest of us, with Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of the New York Times bestseller Never Enough, and Daniel Markovits, author of the acclaimed 2019 book The Meritocracy Trap—moderated by Next Big Idea podcast host, Rufus Griscom. Following the panel discussion, the conversation will continue at an optional VIP dinner(limited availability).

Why are teens so stressed? Can we encourage them to strive towards excellence without crushing them? How will AI and other new technologies alter the work we do? And with these changes in mind, should we be raising and educating our kids differently?

These are the questions keeping parents and educators up at night—but with a little help from Jennifer, Daniel, and a few cocktails (and mocktails), we hope to start discovering the answers.

When

November 1, 2023
5:30 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street • New York, NY 10014
RSVP

Agenda

Speakers

Jennifer Beheny Wallace

Author
NEVER ENOUGH: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic, and What We Can Do About It
Biography

Jennifer Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It.   She is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and appears on national television to discuss her articles and relevant topics in the news.  

After graduating from Harvard College, Wallace began her journalism career at  CBS “60 Minutes,” where she was part of a team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a Journalism Fellow at The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Jennifer serves on the board of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, where she lives with her husband and their three children.

Daniel Markovits

Guido Calabresi Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Biography

Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law.

Markovits works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He publishes in a range of disciplines, including in Science, The American Economic Review, and The Yale Law Journal.

Markovits’s new book, The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin Press), places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes up the law, economics, and politics of human capital to identify the mechanisms through which meritocracy breeds inequality and to expose the burdens that meritocratic inequality imposes on all who fall within meritocracy’s orbit.

Rufus Griscom

Founder
Next Big Idea Club
Biography

Rufus Griscom co-founded Nerve.com, Babble.com, and most recently the Next Big Idea Club. He has discussed consciousness, AI and virtual worlds on the Next Big Idea podcast with thinkers like Steven Pinker, Yuval Noah Harari, Paul Bloom, Steven Johnson and David Chalmers.

Sponsors

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app
In Person
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NEVER ENOUGH: Achievement Culture, Happiness, and the Future of Learning

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POSTPONED: New Date TBA
November 1, 2023
5:30 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street • New York, NY 10014
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Join us for a lively, provocative conversation on how achievement culture is affecting the mental health of our kids, not to mention the rest of us, with Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of the New York Times bestseller Never Enough, and Daniel Markovits, author of the acclaimed 2019 book The Meritocracy Trap—moderated by Next Big Idea podcast host, Rufus Griscom. Following the panel discussion, the conversation will continue at an optional VIP dinner(limited availability).

Why are teens so stressed? Can we encourage them to strive towards excellence without crushing them? How will AI and other new technologies alter the work we do? And with these changes in mind, should we be raising and educating our kids differently?

These are the questions keeping parents and educators up at night—but with a little help from Jennifer, Daniel, and a few cocktails (and mocktails), we hope to start discovering the answers.

Agenda

Speakers

Jennifer Beheny

Wallace

Author
NEVER ENOUGH: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic, and What We Can Do About It

Jennifer Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It.   She is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and appears on national television to discuss her articles and relevant topics in the news.  

After graduating from Harvard College, Wallace began her journalism career at  CBS “60 Minutes,” where she was part of a team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a Journalism Fellow at The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Jennifer serves on the board of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, where she lives with her husband and their three children.

Daniel

Markovits

Guido Calabresi Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law.

Markovits works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He publishes in a range of disciplines, including in Science, The American Economic Review, and The Yale Law Journal.

Markovits’s new book, The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin Press), places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes up the law, economics, and politics of human capital to identify the mechanisms through which meritocracy breeds inequality and to expose the burdens that meritocratic inequality imposes on all who fall within meritocracy’s orbit.

Rufus

Griscom

Founder
Next Big Idea Club

Rufus Griscom co-founded Nerve.com, Babble.com, and most recently the Next Big Idea Club. He has discussed consciousness, AI and virtual worlds on the Next Big Idea podcast with thinkers like Steven Pinker, Yuval Noah Harari, Paul Bloom, Steven Johnson and David Chalmers.

Sponsors

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app

11/1/2023

Betaworks

NEVER ENOUGH: Achievement Culture, Happiness, and the Future of Learning

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Join us for a lively, provocative conversation on how achievement culture is affecting the mental health of our kids, not to mention the rest of us, with Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of the New York Times bestseller Never Enough, and Daniel Markovits, author of the acclaimed 2019 book The Meritocracy Trap—moderated by Next Big Idea podcast host, Rufus Griscom. Following the panel discussion, the conversation will continue at an optional VIP dinner(limited availability).

Why are teens so stressed? Can we encourage them to strive towards excellence without crushing them? How will AI and other new technologies alter the work we do? And with these changes in mind, should we be raising and educating our kids differently?

These are the questions keeping parents and educators up at night—but with a little help from Jennifer, Daniel, and a few cocktails (and mocktails), we hope to start discovering the answers.

speakers

Jennifer Beheny Wallace

Author
NEVER ENOUGH: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic, and What We Can Do About It
Biography

Jennifer Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It.   She is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and appears on national television to discuss her articles and relevant topics in the news.  

After graduating from Harvard College, Wallace began her journalism career at  CBS “60 Minutes,” where she was part of a team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a Journalism Fellow at The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Jennifer serves on the board of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, where she lives with her husband and their three children.

Daniel Markovits

Guido Calabresi Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Biography

Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law.

Markovits works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He publishes in a range of disciplines, including in Science, The American Economic Review, and The Yale Law Journal.

Markovits’s new book, The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin Press), places meritocracy at the center of rising economic inequality and social and political dysfunction. The book takes up the law, economics, and politics of human capital to identify the mechanisms through which meritocracy breeds inequality and to expose the burdens that meritocratic inequality imposes on all who fall within meritocracy’s orbit.

Rufus Griscom

Founder
Next Big Idea Club
Biography

Rufus Griscom co-founded Nerve.com, Babble.com, and most recently the Next Big Idea Club. He has discussed consciousness, AI and virtual worlds on the Next Big Idea podcast with thinkers like Steven Pinker, Yuval Noah Harari, Paul Bloom, Steven Johnson and David Chalmers.

Schedule

5:30 pm

6:00 pm

Cocktails (and Mocktails) and Appetizers

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COCKTAIL OF THE NIGHT

The Overachiever

MOCKTAIL OF THE NIGHT

The Sober-Achiever

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Speakers

6:00 pm

7:30 pm

Panel Discussion

About

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Speakers

Jennifer Beheny Wallace
Author
NEVER ENOUGH: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic, and What We Can Do About It
Daniel Markovits
Guido Calabresi Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Rufus Griscom
Founder
Next Big Idea Club

8:00 pm

10:00 pm

Dinner Meets Never Enough

About

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Speakers

Jennifer Beheny Wallace
Author
NEVER ENOUGH: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic, and What We Can Do About It
Daniel Markovits
Guido Calabresi Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Rufus Griscom
Founder
Next Big Idea Club

WHEN

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
5:30 pm

WHERE

Betaworks
29 Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014

Agenda

Tools
For
Thinking

How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

When

November 1, 2023
5:30 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street • New York, NY 10014
Proof of Full Vaccination Required

RENDER is Over, but Camp is just beginning

We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

Join us for a lively, provocative conversation on how achievement culture is affecting the mental health of our kids, not to mention the rest of us, with Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of the New York Times bestseller Never Enough, and Daniel Markovits, author of the acclaimed 2019 book The Meritocracy Trap—moderated by Next Big Idea podcast host, Rufus Griscom. Following the panel discussion, the conversation will continue at an optional VIP dinner(limited availability).

Why are teens so stressed? Can we encourage them to strive towards excellence without crushing them? How will AI and other new technologies alter the work we do? And with these changes in mind, should we be raising and educating our kids differently?

These are the questions keeping parents and educators up at night—but with a little help from Jennifer, Daniel, and a few cocktails (and mocktails), we hope to start discovering the answers.

Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold

Jennifer Beheny

Wallace

Author
NEVER ENOUGH: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic, and What We Can Do About It

Daniel

Markovits

Guido Calabresi Professor of Law
Yale Law School
@DSMarkovits

Rufus

Griscom

Founder
Next Big Idea Club
@GriscomRufus

Schedule

11:30 AM
Doors Open
12:00 PM
Welcome
with MC
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
How Do We Define Tools for Thinking and Why Do They Matter?
Join Jerry Michalski and John Borthwick as they talk about their interest in tools for thinking, and what excites them the most about the future of the category.
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Inflection Points for Tools for Thinking
What are the key inflection points that will supercharge Tools for Thinking in the near future? How will new technologies, user metaphors, and funding models change how people build these tools? John Borthwick will be discussing how the landscape is changing with the co-founders of Readwise, Daniel Doyon & Tristan Homsi.
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Q+A
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Demo: Protocol Design for Tools for Thinking
Gordon Brander will be presenting a brief demo on Subconscious and the Noosphere, products he and his team are working on to allow Tools for Thinking to become interoperable and better connected.
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
The History and Future of Software as Tools for Thinking
Some of the earliest examples of software explored by pioneers like Doug Engelbart, JCR Licklider, Alan Turing, and others were at their core technologies that help magnify, inspect, and spread our ideas. Jerry Michalski will be sitting down (virtually) with Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, to explore the history and future of "mind-amplifying technology".
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Q+A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tools for Thinking Product Demos
We’ll hear from builders and thinkers deep in the space and get to take a look at what they’re working on. We’ll be checking out Plexus, Re:Collect, Jerry’s Brain, Subconscious and more. 
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Leveraging AI and ML in Building New Tools for Thinking
Alice Albrecht and Linus Lee will be sitting down with Chris Pedregal to discuss their work in leveraging AI and Machine Learning for creating new kinds of tools for thinking.
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Q+A
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Idea Dimensionality and Representing Semantic Meaning
How do ideas - and the human brains that make and hold them - interact?  Get prepared for meta! Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski, will discuss the idea of how people work together to shape, compare, intertwine and ultimately produce multi-faceted ideas and multi-dimensional idea spaces.  As David Waltz (Thinking Machines) once said, “Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding.” Watch and lob questions as the two of them try to build and share the idea of how better ideas can be developed through collaboration.
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Q+A
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Closing and Happy Hour

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app