Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],

Welcome back to Ed Set Go!

I write to you this week from the Great Hall of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Spring is finally here and the grey is giving away to the gorgeous. I also spent the better half of last week with two young nephews who couldn’t be bothered with archaic institutions like museums. It makes me panic-sweat to think that museums of the future may only exist in the metaverse.

I also made the mistake of layering my panic with an article on how the English Lit major is dead. Buried. Coffin-ated. If you, too, are an arts major, you will understand the pain of dragging around completely irrelevant degrees into early middle-age. If you had the chance of a do-over, would you choose differently?

It’s a question I think many parents want to eliminate for their kids—kids who already feel more alive inside Minecraft cities and Robolox battlefields (I was recently updated, you see). This is precisely why coding-for-kids startups thought they were going to make a killing. 

Coding has a self-starting power, says Jatin Luthra.