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Mobility of individual students in quantitative academic metrics relative to their peers over time is far lower than popularly believed. The children identified as the smart kids early in elementary school will, with surprising regularity, maintain that position throughout schooling.
Freddie DeBoer • Education Doesn't Work 2.0 - Freddie deBoer
to knowledge. He was distrustful of established knowledge and what was written in books. He placed little credit in authorities. He preferred to reconstruct everything by himself, in his head. His method closely resembles that of Einstein, Thurston, and Grothendieck. It is, of course, System 3, the slow and careful dialogue between intuition and lo
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The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.’
Daniel Keyes • Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 6)
Psychology
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Generalists
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Fascinating conversation on the extent to which individual skill versus teaching methods matter in math. Justin’s empirical work here is phenomenal.
Linking his post but the one above it is worth reading first. https://t.co/98iBlufNax