I’ve been pondering this for a while now. As I drive, I observe the cityscape—buildings, people, the rhythm of urban life.It strikes me that our current way of living in cities has become increasingly choreographed, a standardized ballet of uniformity.

This homogenization, I believe, is robbing us of valuable learning opportunities. Everything is starting to look the same, a relentless march towards standardization. If this trend continues unchecked, I fear that even the ecosystems around us will adopt this uniform, sterile look.

Even our cultures seem to be following suit, becoming frictionless and predictable. The spontaneous, self-organized aspects of our surroundings are being stripped away, leaving behind a pale imitation of life. This engineered ecosystem,devoid of the unexpected, offers little in the way of real learning.

In contrast, consider our ancestors. They learned by doing, by engaging with their environment in a direct and unfiltered way. Their daily encounters with the unchoreographed world around them offered countless opportunities for growth and adaptation.

This organic way of learning, it seems, is being lost. The idea that learning can happen anywhere and everywhere, through the richness of our daily experiences, is fading from view.