Dear Humans,

To know a small thing really well, you have to know about a lot of big things. Currently, we’re learning about the cave rescue of the youth soccer team in Thailand from three years back. From first entering the cave until the last boy was rescued took 18 days. That seems like something that would be pretty easy to understand.

But to really understand this specific event in this specific place in the world, we have to think about lots of big things. We have to think about the geography and history of Southeast Asia. We have to think about the geology of caves and the biology and psychology of humans. And we have to think about global communication and local culture. 

And, after all that, we’ll really only know we learned anything by the quality of the questions that we’re left with when we’re done.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt