One fine day, it will be your turn. You will leave homes, cities and countries to pursue grander ambitions. You will leave friends, lovers and possibilities for a chance to roam the world to make deeper connections. You will defy your fear of change, hold your head up high and..
Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption.
That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time.
Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.”
The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs.
That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone.
But the education system still runs on its logic.
A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait.
Neither is being served. Both are being processed.
Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.”
AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student.
One at a time. Every time.
It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle.
It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done.
A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture.
The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does.
No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill.
Because the math doesn’t work.
AI doesn’t have that constraint.
Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.”
The brain isn’t broken. The format is.
Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes.
That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.
Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.”
Four years. Six figures of debt.
And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you.
The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance.
Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.”
The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you.
Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace.
The question isn’t whether the old model survives.
It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.
BREAKING: An AI just wrote a research paper. Submitted it to a top science conference. Passed peer review. Nobody on the review panel knew it was AI.
The paper is called "The AI Scientist." Published last week in Nature. Built by Sakana AI in Tokyo, with researchers from Oxford and UBC.
Here is what it did — completely on its own.
It read existing scientific literature. Formed a hypothesis. Designed an experiment. Ran the experiment. Analyzed the results. Wrote the full academic paper. Then peer-reviewed its own work.
No human at any stage.
They submitted three fully AI-generated papers to a top ML conference under blind peer review. Human reviewers were told some might be AI, but not which ones.
One was accepted. It scored higher than 55% of human-authored papers at that same conference.
The accepted paper cost $15 in compute to produce.
Fifteen dollars.
Now here is the part nobody is talking about.
The team found a clear scaling law: stronger foundation models produce higher-quality research outputs. Better base model in, better science out.
Which means this gets dramatically better — automatically — every time a new model drops.
Right now it is limited to computational ML experiments. No biology. No chemistry. No physical labs.
For now.
What happens when the thing that discovers new science... is itself?
THIS IS CRAZYY!!!!🤯
A guy just built a $1.8 billion company with two employees. Him and his brother. Using AI.
Matthew Gallagher started Medvi from his house in Los Angeles. Spent $20,000 and two months. AI wrote the code. AI made the website. AI made the ads. AI handled customer service.
First month. 300 customers. Second month. 1,000 more. First full year. $401 million in sales. This year on track for $1.8 billion.
His only hire? His younger brother. That's the entire company.
The New York Times verified the numbers. $65 million profit last year. More than $3 million coming in every single day.
Now compare this. Hims & Hers sells weight loss drugs online. 2,442 employees. $2.4 billion revenue. 5.5% profit margin. This guy is doing nearly the same with two people and triple the margins.
He grew up living in motels and cars. Taught himself to code on a laptop his uncle gave him. Sold samurai swords on eBay as a teenager. Didn't finish college. Moved to LA to become an actor.
Now he's running the fastest growing company nobody has heard of.
When his website broke during a hike he had to sprint home because there was nobody else to fix it. Lost 200 customers in one hour. That's the reality of a two person company doing $1.8 billion.
A VC told him don't raise money. He listened. Zero outside funding. He owns 100% of it.
Two brothers. $20,000. A laptop. And every AI tool they could get their hands on. That's all it took.
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Most people are playing the wrong game.
They wake up.
They do their job.
They collect the paycheck.
They scroll at night.
Repeat.
After years of coaching ambitious professionals, I have realised that the ones who actually move forward aren't working harder.
They're working differently.
They are thinking differently.
They're asking the hard questions.
They know that ‘normal’ won’t bring them extraordinary results.
They know that if they are to succeed, they must have the right information.
The right information that tips the scale in their favour.
They know that what they know matters.
They know that who they know matters.
They know that opportunities will not be created for them if they are not willing to become creators themselves.
They pay attention to the future and think in terms of ‘years’.
They ask meaningful questions and are not afraid of the answers they’d get.
They don’t chase trends, promotions and the next best thing because it’s fancy to have.
They chase because it is anchored with their purpose.
They also know that when they experience disappointments, it is the season and with everything else, ‘this too shall pass’.
Your career isn't something that happens to you; it's something that you make happen.
You build it deliberately and intentionally, with full awareness.
Make Sense?
Go and be fantastic today.
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.