Basar Basaran

Cofounder @ Kunduz | @ycombinator @stanford alum | Tweets in EN & TR

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

same goes for building

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

kurt vonnegut's letter to a bunch of high school students explaining the importance of creating things

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

The full study: https://t.co/4cpI5HAlWL

@omc345 thanks for sharing this.

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

AI is making progress in every single industry, and education is falling behind once again.

"AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months."

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

The working paper by Strömberg, Lei & Wu studies 26,811 students in China over 30 months and the negative impact seems to persist on high-stakes exams two years into students' AI adoption.

As we enter a new school year, edtech's biggest objective should be to reverse this.

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

@jasonfreedman Thanks for the great post @jasonfreedman! One addition to the list: Mert Kucuk @ VizeraLabs (S14) - he later helped Kunduz (S18) build its own tech on many fronts.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Hire out of pain. Don't hire because you think you'll need someone soon or maybe sometime later. Wait until you or your team are actually hurting: working weekends, missing family dinners, dropping balls. That pain is the signal that the role is real. I learned this the hard way after watching founders (including myself) hire ahead of need and end up with people in roles that weren't fully formed yet. When you hire out of pain, you know exactly what the job is because you've been doing it yourself. You can evaluate performance because you know what good looks like. And the new hire knows you'll step back in if they fail, because you were just doing it last week.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

A massive new study on peak performance included 34,000 international top performers: Nobel laureates, renowned classical music composers, Olympic champs, and the world’s best chess players. It shows early specialization is a trap, and the road to greatness is long and varied.

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

play the classics https://t.co/GKKQFQjFGY

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

quote of the month 🏛️

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Arnold Schwarzenegger on why selling the product is equally as important as making the product

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

Whatever it is, we end up living in a world where the payroll softwares spend more time and money on design than the cities. It’s easy to realize how much more $ at stake in the former but pure math of capitalism put in play is turning the world into nothing beyond bland.

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

Things that I never comprehend #8: how such simple conventional wisdom has gone missing in contemporary design, architecture and city planning (or whatever else it falls under).

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Importance of Beauty in the Ordinary

(and the danger of things being bland)

A short thread...

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

This trend’s longer term consequences mentioned in @culturaltutor’s thread must be hurting at least some of the decision makers in some way. Or, maybe, physical world’s influence in people’s psychology and perception of the world has become trivial.

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

remote learning is not a replacement and edtech is far from replacing formal k12 education. if we accept edtech’s current virtue as a set of supporting tools that make k12 education more effective and/or affordable, startups will start focusing on scalable solutions

[Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois]

More data about the impact of the pandemic on academic achievement in the US. It looks grim overall. While the detrimental effect of the pandemic is multifactorial, the data also suggests remote learning is not an adequate substitute for in-person school.
https://t.co/4UUvM2nqua

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

Amazed by the genius of this data visualization. Terrified by what it tells.

- DM credit: @batuhanavci 🙏🏼

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

NASA released a spiral chart to visualize the global temperature change between 1880 and 2021. We NEED climate reform.

[BADE ÖZKAN @AhuBadeOzkan1]

İyi Pazarlar 🐬

Ocak ayı @HBRTurkiye için kaleme aldığım ‘Türkiye ‘den global kariyer ‘ başlıklı yazı 👇🏾 ve konu ile ilgili bir başarı hikayesini #kunduz online eğitim platformu (kurucusu @basarx2an ile) konuştuğumuz podcast https://t.co/ILCWqjIoeH

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

@kunduzasor olarak kurumsal işbirliklerimizle şirketlere veli çalışanları için eğitimde eşsiz bir ek fayda sunuyoruz. Finansbank ailesiyle birlikte çalışmaya başladığımız için heyecanlıyız 🙌🏼

[QNB Türkiye Kariyer @qnbturkiyeik]

‘’Kunduz‘’ Online Eğitim Platformu ile Finansçı Çocuklarımızın Eğitim Hayatlarında da Yanlarındayız! Finansçı çocuklarımızın eğitimine ve gelişimine destek olmaya ‘’KUNDUZ‘’ ile devam ediyoruz!

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

A worker of the poets’ park in Istanbul pays homage to a composer who passed away yesterday. He was reading and contemplating on the lyrics of one of his renowned pieces in front of his statue.

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

Major threat to the society and the workforce in 2040s. There is not an easy solution for it but only way to solve or, at least, minimize the impact is to act on it today.

[P.D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 @Mangan150]

Children born during the pandemic have experienced a catastrophic - no other word I think - drop in cognitive development of 22 IQ points.

https://t.co/iwnlPiHlAN

[Basar Basaran @basarx2an]

Most insightful business book I read this year. Great summary by @jwdanner