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-Despite China’s crackdown—another proofpoint of how challenging it’s become to do business in the country—the West can learn from Chinese tutoring marketplaces. Edtech in the U.S. and Europe remains solitary—some form of Zoom school and individual assignments. It’s telling that America’s most valuable education startups are MOOCs (massive open onl... See more
Rex Woodbury • 5 Lessons from China's Internet Companies
But all women should have free access to school, for as long as studying is a commodity we have to pay for, or a step in the “job hunt,” our relation to intellectual work cannot be a liberating experience.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Tiago Forte: The Future of Education
open.spotify.comAt Airtable, we struggled with the high hurdle rate for the product: unlike SaaS products like Zoom, Dropbox, or Slack, Airtable’s product is incredibly complex. That Airtable has had such strong bottom-up adoption for such a horizontal, versatile product is astonishing. A key challenge for Airtable and its counterparts will be how to communicate t... See more
David Litwak • Inclusive Exclusivity - Self-Cancelling Greek Life And Our Broken Vocabulary Around Curation (Cafe Society Dinner Discussion #11)
On top, she added her own distinctive techno-futurist gloss—Tofflerism with a stock-picker’s sensibility. It cost over $600 a year to subscribe to Release 1.0, and 1,500 of the tech industry’s most powerful read its every elliptical word.
Margaret O'Mara • The Code
I have lived through so many trends in academia (1990s-2000s deconstruction post modernism, cultural studies, queer theory, OOO) but since 2009, the impetus has come from Silicon Valley. Even though social justice activism has almost replaced scholarly ambitions for younger scholars, Digital Humanities MOOCs, and now AI are the top down mandates t... See more
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