Ultralearning

Chapter II: Why Ultralearning Matters
1.
 “Average is over”: Tyler Cowen, 
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great
Stagnation
 (New York: Penguin, 2013).
2.
 The MIT economist David Autor: David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, and Melissa S. Kearney, “The

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Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market,” 
American Economic Review
 96, no. 2 (May 2006): 189–94.
3.
  Tuition  has  increased  far  faster:  Danielle  Douglas-Gabriel,  “College  Costs  Rising  Faster  than
Financial 
Aid, 
Report 
Says,” 
Washington 
Post
, 
October 
26,
2016,https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/10/26/college-costs-rising-
faster-than-financial-aid-report-says/?utm_term=.72c95b4c86cb.
4.
 “a leading English-language novelist”: Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao,” 
New York
Times
,  July  24,  2015,  https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-
tao.html.