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skipped every class, escaped from big law, and sold a company. now building self-directed schools

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Thanks for sharing @sapinker!

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Yes, Human Beings Are Exceptional https://t.co/Eq36bEvNK2

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and they'll learn so much along the way! most kids who build real things (movies, products, companies, brands) have to squeeze it in after school, homework, and extracurriculars

thats what i love about self-directed schools. the portfolio becomes the main activity, not a distraction

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@robkhenderson to heal the self, leave the self

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@DStrachman reminds me of @naval's notion of specific knowledge, that which you only gain from doing

as he pointed out: it's already the currency of the present. AI only makes it more true

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@strauss_le67161 @mokohex_exe seriously... its crazy

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@MaxCRoser super interesting. does that imply people's views on this are more a function of their personality than any rational analysis?

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@ConjectureInst in that case, happy to support!

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@tarenfeist seriously! why double down on what you know isnt working...

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@ConjectureInst then who just made money on my amazon purchase 😂

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@waitbutwhy reminds me of the videos of the nepali glacier flood. a calm crowd doesn't stop the wave from crashing down

whats crazy to me is we can see this one coming, but were still raising kids for the world on the beach, not what comes after the wave

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claude analyzed 8 years of my habit tracker data. one interesting insight: when im meditating regularly, im 4x more likely to stick to my other good habits

modern abundance makes it hard to be healthy. the key isnt will power. it's systems and guardrails

that's why i worry about sheltering kids from every temptation. a kid who never practices building their own guardrails becomes an adult who has none

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i learned far more from talking to my mom (both as a little child and as an adult) than i did from school

in fact, school was actively harmful because for many years our conversations became mostly about my bad grades

curious what you think about letting kids steer the convo, as a way of practicing agency?

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@Dale_Chu @ToddEngdahl @The74 as a CEO, more spend, shrinking customer base is the warning sign that should set the alarm bells off

what are the leavers choosing instead? what reforms would allow the public schools to keep them?

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the underlying insight here is that kids are just like everyone else. we all develop confidence and competency by actually doing things

[Deepak Patel @x_deepakpatel]

We often talk about raising brave, confident children, but confidence grows when children have opportunities to do difficult things for themselves.

In Kids Who Build, I explore how people like Maya Penn and Fraser Doherty started creating things while they were still children. They weren't waiting for permission to become builders.

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@Dale_Chu @KelseyTuoc @TheArgumentMag school choice might be the most progressive issue that dems oppose

rich families already have school choice. the debate is about whether lower income families deserve the same

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@tomhyde_ @DavidDeutschOxf reminds me of a thought experiment: you wake up in prison divided into violent gangs and have to decide whether to join one

most of us abhor gang violence, but in that case, you either join or suffer

good institutions make many moral decision easy

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very true, except for any implication that some of us are wanderers and others marchers

we're all born capable of authoring our own story. school drills that out of us

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@ConjectureInst @mboudry @chellivia @HumanProgress its not a coincidence that the dominant hand in the world allows itself to be bitten

western dominance (culturally, economically, militaristically) is a direct result of it embracing criticism, and using that criticism as a mechanism for rapid improvement