Rapkat was born in northwest China, fled to Malaysia at five, landed in Brooklyn, bounced through public, private, and charter school, married at seventeen, attended a coding bootcamp, got a remote software engineering job — and has been homeschooling and world schooling his five kids across Europe and Asia ever since.

In this episode we talk about why he thinks getting straight A's is actually not a good sign, what ”learning to learn” means and why it matters more than any subject, how he intentionally teaches his kids to let go of possessions every time they move, and why he believes seventy percent of your kid's school day is completely invisible to you as a parent.

We also get into AI, the real cost of using it, and what he says most people get completely wrong about it.

If you've ever wondered what education looks like when you strip away every assumption — this one will stay with you.

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