Today we share the worldview behind our mission.
Human values don't average out. Local knowledge can't be centralized. The good future has many AIs, raised in different places, shaped by the people they serve, disagreeing with each other the way we do.
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Jensen Huang: "People with really high expectations have very low resilience."
"I think one of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations. And I mean that.
Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations. And you deserve to have high expectations because you came from a great school.
You were very successful. You're top of your class.
Obviously, you were able to pay for tuition. And then you're graduating from one of the finest institutions on the planet.
You're surrounded by other kids that are just incredible. You naturally have very high expectations.
People with very high expectations have very low resilience. And unfortunately, resilience matters in success.
I don't know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you. And I was fortunate that I grew up with my parents providing a condition for us to be successful on the one hand, but there were plenty of opportunities for setbacks and suffering.
And to this day, I use the phrase pain and suffering inside our company with great glee. And I mean that. Boy, this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering.
And I mean that in a happy way, because you want to train, you want to refine the character of your company.
You want greatness out of them. And greatness is not intelligence.
Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people.
It's formed out of people who suffered.
And so if I could wish upon you, I don't know how to do it. For all of you Stanford students, I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering."
When I see VCs shocked at the pricing of public SaaS, 95% of the time they’re talking about a company that became unfashionable years ago.
Spreadsheet investing at the growth stage has failed to price qualitative factors appropriately.
Many of these finance-driven companies allowed their brand equity and innovation muscle to die.
It was obvious to everyone except the people with their nose stuck in the spreadsheets.
Hubspot is old and unfashionable. It is the slowest and clunkiest software I have used in the past 5 years. No one I know in tech would touch this stock. I wouldn’t recommend the software to anyone.
Servicenow is worse.
These companies turned themselves into financial engineering assets, designed to look good on a spreadsheet.
A lot of people fell for it.
Public SaaS is largely a “market for lemons” right now.
The non-engineering version of Gauntlet AI is becoming very clear now.
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Is classical education inherently conservative?
It honestly depends on what we mean by conservative.
Classical education is absolutely about recovering the ancient telos of education which was always the cultivation of virtue, moral formation, disciplined thinking, and the pursuit of truth and beauty. It is also unapologetically about passing along the Western intellectual tradition (Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome) much of it mediated through Christianity and Catholic thought.
But that does not mean it is merely partisan or reactionary. Folks on the right should love it, but folks on the left will eventually come to terms with the fact they have nowhere else to go.
The Left still has some serious IQ horsepower. And over time, it is simply not sustainable for thoughtful people to stand against the deepest traditions of human reason, moral philosophy, and civilizational inheritance. You can only sneer at Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Shakespeare for so long before the sneering itself starts to look unserious.
Mark this post! In five or ten years, classical education will be bipartisan. Not because it “won” a culture war, but because serious minds eventually rediscover that education is about formation, not indoctrination, and the best thinking we have didn’t begin in 2020.
Rejecting Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome isn’t progressive. It’s just anti-intellectual.
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Using AI for math only makes sense if we have already forgotten what math is for. The purpose of mathematics is not primarily utility. Most people will never personally “use” advanced mathematics in their daily lives, and that has always been true. Mathematics exists first for formation. It disciplines the mind, orders our thinking, and trains us in patience, precision, and humility before reality.
Properly taught, math conditions the heart and the intellect to receive beauty and truth. It habituates us to recognize that answers are not matters of preference, that reality has a structure we must conform ourselves to, and that clarity is something achieved through effort. When AI replaces the work of thinking in math, it does not merely save time; it removes the very struggle by which the student is formed. At that point, math is no longer education but mere output—and the soul is left untouched.
NEW YORK IS DEAD LAST IN BUSINESS FRIENDLINESS, TAX COMPETITIVENESS, AND POPULATION RETENTION; A STATE IN STRUCTURAL DECLINE
- New York ranks 50th (dead last) for business friendliness in the United States
- New York ranks 49th in CEO surveys of best states for business
- New York ranks 50th overall in state tax competitiveness
- New York ranks 50th for individual income tax competitiveness
- New York ranks 47th for property tax competitiveness
- New York is the 2nd most regulated state in the country with over 300,000 regulatory restrictions
- New York files more legislation than any state in the U.S., roughly five times the national average
- New York ranks 4th highest for tort costs as a share of state GDP
- New York ranks 50th in net domestic migration, losing more residents than any other state
- New York ranks 50th in net migration income per capita, losing higher-income taxpayers fastest
- New York ranks 49th in projected growth of prime working-age population
- New York has lost nearly 10% of its prime working-age workforce since 2005
- New York is the 47th fastest-growing state over the past two decades
- New York ranks 47th for housing-burdened households, with nearly 40% of residents spending over 30% of income on housing
- New York is a top-10 most expensive state for housing
- New York ranks 48th for workers’ compensation insurance costs
- New York employers pay among the highest health insurance premiums in the nation
- New York is the only state with a Scaffold Law that inflates construction insurance costs by 10% or more
- New York ranks 50th (worst) for average commute time in the United States
- New York ranks 42nd for bridges in poor condition
- New York ranks 44th in energy production per capita
- New York ranks 43rd–45th for residential and commercial electricity costs
- New York ranks 44th in overall state economic performance
- New York’s job growth over the past decade is far below the national average and a fraction of Florida and Texas
Source: Blueprint for New York – Creating a Roadmap for Change (Public Policy Institute of New York, September 2025)
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