Scott Young is a blogger, traveler, author, self-experimenter and ultra-learner that took MIT's entire 4-year programming curriculum in a year. He's the author of Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career and runs a podcast looking at career advice, learning, growth, productivity, philosophy and more. In today's episode we discuss: How Scott completed a 4-year MIT programming degree in 12 months Secrets to learning smarter, and faster The reasons MOOCs failed and didn't Ways to redesign education for the 21st century How to deal with filter bubbles and bias Scott's thoughts on productivity, purpose, and results Lessons learned from travel Why Scott's not convinced about biohacking and brain augmentation Was Harvard right in their racial discrimination How to increase your comfort zone and creativity What Scott's learned about happiness and internal reflection Where should someone today focus their efforts Why software is eating the world