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After 25 years of solitude, the most influential tech billionaire you've never heard of broke his silence to talk to @JeremySternLA about what he calls “the single best product I’ve ever built, in four decades, by far.”
Colossus can report for the first time that Trilogy founder Joe Liemandt is the product guy behind Al... See more
My latest @joincolossus on the complicated man putting an end to school as we've known it for 200 years and, IMO, replacing it with something better.
The mind-boggling and moving story of Alpha School and Joe Liemandt, his first interview in 25 years:
https://t.co/12FmLb39yX
Jeremy Sternx.comThe Software Tycoon Scaling AI Education to a Billion Kids
joincolossus.com
"In the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation. Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages."
— college professor Adam Kotsko
Paul Grahamx.com
The death of the public intellectual
substack.com
Good read on an important topic.
Nearly all geniuses were:
- privately educated with elite tutors
- introduced to complex topics young
- around adults instead of peers when young
Thoughts:
-great contemporary thinkers should teach th... See more
Schools are no longer the only place where knowledge is aggregated and connections are made. Approximately 15 million students in the US are piecing together their education from places outside of the classroom.