Emily Findley

best-selling ghostwriter turned HS Guide @alphaschool

revolutionizing education, mentoring talented teens, + building with AI

[Austin Way @Austin_Way]

The most valuable thing @Alphaschool taught me is acting with high agency and high urgency.

Sophomore year, I got into a long email war with one of Alpha's academic leads.

Advanced Placement courses, the college-level classes you can take in high school, took us 80 to 120 hours each. I was sure we could do it in 40.

Weeks of back and forth ended with: "You're a kid. I have a Harvard degree."

My guide (@em_findley)'s response: "If you really believe you're right, stop arguing and go prove it."

Two weeks later, a small team and I launched our own AP courses. In about four weeks, students went from the 35th percentile to the 85th, with under 40 hours of work.

Today, I do that academic lead's job, without the Harvard degree (yet). With high agency and high urgency, I didn't need it.

[Austin Way @Austin_Way]

https://t.co/ffXjdsyWv8

[roarke.r @roarkeradia]

My own parents have told me plenty over the years: be more open-minded, put in more effort, finish the job.

Today, high schoolers hear that same kind of feedback live, wearing a heart-rate monitor.

To pass, their heart rate has to settle back within 10% of resting.

Emotional regulation is a crucial life skill that most people don't know how to apply.

[liemandt @jliemandt]

Today, I’m honored to join Andrew Huberman for a deep conversation about how children learn and how we can redesign school around what science makes possible.

Just one year ago, I recorded my first podcast with @patrick_oshag on Invest Like the Best.

Since then, word of mouth and demand for Alpha School have exploded.

We’re now bringing Alpha to 50 communities across the country, each made possible by founding families determined to build a better education for their children.

[Oz Zimmerman @Oz_Zimmerman]

I am a 15-year-old freshman and my school gave us 5 days to teach ourselves an entire AP unit with zero lectures and no study guide.

The challenge is called "Learning to Learn."

Instead of waiting for a teacher to hand out chapter questions, we had to pull the official AP syllabus, use AI to break down the hardest concepts, and build our own master study system from scratch.

By Friday afternoon we had to sit down and take the official AP exam to prove we could score a 5 on our own.

Most schools test how well you remember what someone told you on Tuesday. When you know how to build your own syllabus and teach yourself college material, you realize traditional classes just move too slow.

@Alphaschool

[Geetesh Parelly @GeeteshParelly]

I'm a 17 y/o giving myself 6 months to hit $50,000 in revenue.

No team. No budget. Just a teenager turning his life around.

I might fail miserably, but I’ll be building in public the whole way.

Follow along so you don't miss it 👀

[Reuben Runacres @ReubenRunacres]

I'm actually hosting an event this weekend in Austin for any guys interested: https://t.co/Xbep11JeHY

Thanks to @yashchitneni and @AlphaSchoolATX's hackathons I can now code things like my event page!