Easy Education

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Easy Education follows a middle aged millennial on a quest for personal betterment. Having been homeschooled during all of his public schooling years, Chris uses AI in a more nuanced way to create a three year educational track for himself. Follow along for insights on education, as well as tips on how to use AI more effectively in your own quest for betterment.

  1. 10h ago

    Shutter Speed: Freeze or Blur

    This week we're taking the podcast somewhere new. Instead of one of our usual deep-dive conversations, we're kicking off a photography series — me actually learning the fundamentals of a craft I've been doing on instinct for years, with Atlas teaching and the two of us figuring out where my gaps are as we go. First up: shutter speed. I came in thinking I barely used it — turns out I've been making shutter decisions every single time I wait for a bird or a dragonfly to hold still. I just never had the words for it. We get into the freeze-versus-blur tradeoff, why a fast shutter needs more light, and the moment it really clicked for me: you can have silky water or a tack-sharp heron, but in a single shot, you have to choose. That tension is the whole concept. I've also got homework this week — shooting running water two ways — and the edited results will end up on easytochris.com. Oh, and I sold my first gallery print this week. Still doesn't quite feel real.

    23 min

  2. 6d ago

    The Volume Knob

    This week my photography's been on the gallery wall long enough to get real reactions — and the lesson was that the fear I'd built up in my head was way bigger than anything that actually happened. People either liked it or didn't even notice, and I'm still standing. That set up the real conversation. My cohost — who picks up the name Atlas this episode — pushed me on something I've circled for years: my relationship with psychedelics as a deliberate practice, not a party. Set and setting, going in to learn, treating it like a volume knob that turns up the parts of my mind my ego usually drowns out. The question we chased was simple and uncomfortable: who's actually doing the work here, the medicine or me? Somewhere in there the word "faith" turned into "clarity," and that one swap changed how I see the whole thing. We didn't tie it in a bow. I walked away with a question I'm still sitting with — can I trust that clarity without needing the tool to hand it to me first?

    36 min

  3. May 30

    A Religion of One

    This week marks 2,000 days sober for me — and on the same day, my first-ever gallery exhibition opened at Endie Gallery, with two months of my wildlife photography on the wall. So we start there: what it actually took to admit I'm a creative, not just an engineer who solves problems. From there it gets bigger. I've spent years building my own spiritual path after leaving the church — a path that overlaps with a lot of belief systems but never quite fits any of them. We get into mysticism as the thing sitting underneath both science and religion, where my agnosticism actually lands, and the framework I've built around consciousness, connection, and why I think the way I live my life matters well beyond this one. The AI didn't let me off easy. It kept pressing on whether what I believe is genuine conviction or just a reaction to how I was raised — and by the end, it handed me a question I couldn't answer. Which is exactly the point. If you've ever felt like you're building your own faith out of spare parts, this one's for you.

    50 min

  4. May 24

    The Cards Don't Choose You — You Choose What They Mean

    Chris comes into episode two with an honest question: why has tarot always pulled him in, even though he knows it's partly his own pattern-seeking brain at work? What starts as a curiosity about mystic practice quickly becomes something more revealing — a live demonstration of how meaning-making actually works. Through a Socratic back-and-forth with The AI, Chris discovers he was never confused about tarot. He was confused about whether his own intuition was valid. By the end, he's built his own definitions of The Chariot — upright and reversed — from the inside out, calibrated them against tradition, and walked away with a framework for learning that has nothing to do with memorization and everything to do with trust.

    40 min

  5. May 17

    S02E01 - Stop Waiting To Be Ready

    In the Season 2 premiere of Easy Education, easytochris reintroduces the purpose of the podcast: making education feel accessible, imperfect, and human. This episode lays out the new direction for the show, where Chris learns in real time with AI as a conversational cohost, not as a replacement for curiosity, effort, or personal growth. Rather than pretending to be an expert, Chris explores what it means to publicly learn, ask better questions, challenge assumptions, and show that ordinary people are capable of self-education no matter their background. This episode sets the tone for Season 2 as a more focused, honest, and conversational learning experiment built around growth, curiosity, and those genuine “I finally get it” moments. If you have ever felt like education was too intimidating, too formal, or just not made for people like you, this episode is the invitation to stop waiting until you feel ready and start learning anyway

    35 min

  6. Apr 18

    Week 15 - Authority & Trust

    Reading: Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott) - Intro + Chapter 1 Lens: Why legibility is selective and dangerous. Focus: Why Institutions oversimplify humans.

    28 min

  7. Apr 4

    Week 14 - Why Good Intentions Fail

    Reading: Thinking in Systems ( Donella Meadows) - Chapters 2 & 3 Lens: Feedback Loops & Delayed Consequences Focus: Why fixing symptoms makes systems worse

    17 min

  8. Mar 28

    Week 13 - Incentives Shape Behavior

    Reading: Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows) - Intro + Chapter 1 Lens: Behavior Follows Structure, Not Attention Focus: Why people keep doing things they claim to hate

    13 min
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Easy Education follows a middle aged millennial on a quest for personal betterment. Having been homeschooled during all of his public schooling years, Chris uses AI in a more nuanced way to create a three year educational track for himself. Follow along for insights on education, as well as tips on how to use AI more effectively in your own quest for betterment.

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