🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂

CMO/Advisor/Tsundoku ex-@ga @aplaceformom @expedia @mckinsey @wharton @proctergamble Author- MarketingBS

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

A lot has been written about side hustles and how to make a living "working for yourself". But there IS a path to $1MM/year as a traditional employee. Here the framework that no one seems to acknowledge:

https://t.co/AnvogvZYh4

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@greg_ashman It’s as bad as it sounds.
But it shows the lack of selection effects. The GT kids aren’t using TT. It’s kids who they couldn’t get to read full books. Better than nothing.

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@mbateman I met a 4th grader from alpha NYC this week. She is doing all high school science. She loves Timeback but said, “the science stuff is really weak. Especially after 8th grade”

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@mbateman I like it. What it’s missing is:
- spaced repetition to ensure all the knowledge is retained
- comprehensiveness: what they learn is pretty random based on how they advance in their reading abilities. No effort is made to ensure they learn specific facts

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@RichardHanania Isn’t this what ALL interest groups do?

Environmental groups fight for (their interpretation) of the environment

Chamber of commerce fights for (their interpretation) of small business

PAC fight for (their interpretation) of getting votes for their candidate

(I’m anti-union)

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@loobah_l @mbateman The kids do them online. There is an in-person proctor who works for the school and a remote proctor monitoring.

When I was traveling with my kids I was the “in-person person”. I am very confident there is no cheating happening on these tests

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@griswold You missed Talleyrand, July Monarchy and most importantly Hugh Jackman and Wolverine!

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

People are upset about this, but it has already played out in Go. The AI learned to play the game in a way that was not legible to humans

[roon @tszzl]

on some level if you want civilization to ascend to a new level you need your AIs to do things that are not legible to you and maybe not even strictly obey you, in the same way that if you hire a great new ceo you give them a lot of autonomy to transform the company according to their own plan, even one which may not immediately read as a winning strategy (imagine the board of directors of Apple firing and rehiring Steve Jobs years later - except the board of directors are chimpanzees)

all else equal, companies and organizations that hand more of themselves over to machine intelligence will outcompete ones that demand the corrigibility and legibility tax of human oversight and human design. it is not a stable equilibrium and requires some sort of vast cooperation scheme if you’d like to enforce it

real asi alignment has to operate at a deeper level than oversight, control, or human corrigibility

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@gtmom Academic competitions:
Quizbowl
History been
Robotics competitions
Chess
Speech and debate

All are much stronger now than a decade ago

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@mackenzieprice This (30m 1:1 reading) should be added to GT. Those kids definitely don’t get that and I think it would make a huge difference.

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@kutluokan Be careful. Check out income levels of those majors…

But also:
Yes to having Timeback teach things that are not on the MAP test

Knowledge is good

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@griswold @GovPressOffice If the goal is funding teacher and administrator jobs than $s spent is likely the correct metric…

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

Short story on how a company found out they had a division that they didn’t know existed and had no connection to the rest of the company

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@adamgordonbell @jon_stokes Related story:
My wife worked at a short-lived startup that analyzed employee email and calendar meetings to create networks.

In theory it could be used to understand what employee interactions led to successful product launches and which did not… (1/x)

[🐂 Edward Nevraumont 🐂 @Ednever]

@adamgordonbell @jon_stokes …but I don’t think the company bought the product.

It was a great 1-off tool. But not worth the subscription.

Hence why my wife no longer works there — they were eventually acquired by Microsoft and incorporated into Teams somehow (6/6)

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@adamgordonbell @jon_stokes …They acquired the indian team in an acquisition but it somehow got lost in the mix. They were still on payroll, but were not in the reporting structure. So they just kept getting paid every 2-weeks without any responsibilities.

The CEO took action… (5/x)

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@planebottle @greg_ashman @CharlotteEDavie Yes. That works. Key is to do it frequently though and get immidiately feedback.

More efficient than teaching others.

But teaching others still beats what many schools have kids do to learn.

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That’s a 400m in 1m08s. Repeated 105 times. He basically sprinted a marathon.

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

BREAKING VIDEO: Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to win a regular marathon in under two hours, setting a new world record at the London Marathon in 1:59:30!

Kenyans invented running™