My article got published on @TechCrunch! I’ve always been impressed by how inclusive a fighting gym could be, and hope we can do better in tech. Let me know what you think :)
The data: "At UC San Diego, the number of freshmen failing to meet high-school math standards grew nearly 30-fold between 2020 and 2025. By fall 2025, 1 of 12 entering students was placed into remedial math to learn material taught in elementary and middle school.”
algebra is racist, banned. mugshots are racist, banned. SATs are racist, banned. scotus strikes down race based admissions bc it’s racist, UCs & colleges ignore it. teachers union & sf boe force racist power wheel of oppression on all sfusd 9th graders as graduation requirement, while kids cant do middle school math. vote smarter SF & CA!
🚨30% of Berkeley Calculus students are severely underprepared (half flunked), yet a whopping 321 Lowell students were rejected by Berkeley. Only 42 students (12%) were accepted from Lowell hs, while Mission hs had 45% acceptance rate (34 out of 76 applicants) @HarmeetKDhillon https://t.co/Gd0CZfb2ie
University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:
“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”
“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”
Of course I know 2.6% of physicians are Black men… I’ve joined that 🤣. Thank you to the comments and quotes that prove literacy is still in critical condition
saikat chakrabarti
> be first 10 at stripe
> clear 9 figures
> ladder-pull: don't want people to start startups
> donate $500K to Prop D, the 800% increase in gross receipts tax that blocks startups from staying in SF
^^ don't be this guy. don't be the ladder puller.
Just found out that Berkeley course staff are writing hooks inside course repos so if a student opens an assignment in Claude Code or Cursor the agent will automatically ping the staff 😵💫 well played
Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, the packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it anyway."
You clearly don’t understand anything.
Also, why are Asians automatically assumed to be privileged? In NYC for example Asian Americans have the same poverty rates as black (and in some years higher), but are still held to higher standards due to the color of their skin.
I understand why many Asian families feel frustrated in elite admissions systems. In intensely competitive environments, there is a real perception — and sometimes evidence — that exceptional academic performance still does not guarantee admission.
That feeling should not be dismissed.
But admissions committees also confront another reality: if you have 100 applicants from privileged, high-performing educational pipelines with nearly identical scores, resumes, research access, tutoring, and opportunities, it is not irrational to also value the applicant who achieved similar academic success despite poverty, instability, underfunded schools, family hardship, or lack of institutional advantages.
That is not abandoning merit. It is recognizing that achievement exists in context.
And medicine especially is not merely selecting expert test takers. It is selecting future physicians who will care for human beings across every class, culture, language, and circumstance in society.
The irony is that many people who defend “objective merit” often become deeply uncomfortable the moment merit is evaluated in anything broader than a percentile ranking.
Karen Bass is the worst leader I’ve ever seen. Nobody knew she was out of the country during the Palisades Fire. Nobody could order air tankers because her deputy mayor was under house arrest. Her LADWP chief didn’t know our reservoir was empty. Karen Bass is running an absolute CLOWN SHOW. Vote like your life depends on it! Cuz it does!
Last year I asked Connie Chan to resign for her role in making San Francisco unsafe for Asian Americans
This year she somehow got the endorsement from Pelosi
Make it make sense. You can’t.