Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“If we have enough data, I know we can make predictions,”
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
Maybe we’ve realized that the internet simply works better as a fragmented thing.
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented
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
Research sociologist
Timothy Butler • Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path
Slowly, people seemed to be rediscovering the truth that the old internet had taught us — that discussions work better when you can pick and choose who you’re talking to.
Noah Smith • The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented
Indefinite Optimism
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
1/OK, let's talk about the COLLEGE APOCALYPSE.
Coronavirus, with a bit of help from Trump, is going to smash the U.S. university system. And it's going to smash the economic model that has sustained college towns.
A new paper by Harvard found that:
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
By far the most optimistic feature of today's world is that there is more mobilized talent than ever before, and by a long mile. A mere few decades ago, or less in many cases, if you were born into India, China, or Nigeria, the chance you could make a positive contribution to the world on a significant scale was quite low. It is now much, much high... See more