My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?! It's a "network university," which is our fancy term for a new type of social institution: one that transforms an existing network into a social… Show more

The generative intellectual environments that academic institutions house and foster are being recreated or entirely rethought online, outside of the brick walls of a university. Internet salons, writer collectives, open-source software, fellowships, and cohort-based courses are providing modern alternatives to those institutions. You don’t need an... See more

We are inventing better ways to find a network, in cohort-based education products and professional communities. I think we’re still early in the rise of companies offering many other services in the university “package”, but it’s a matter of time.