Mharème

Running @tiossanacademy
Co-creating a teen program to help them navigate 21th world with key skills.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

One school I designed had cubicles the kids chose to work in, a couch, and a terrarium full of frogs. It looked more like a little studio than a classroom.

A visiting tech executive looked around and asked, genuinely, "How do I get my staff to work like this?"

That question told me something. The way children learn best had begun to resemble the way the best adults work. We need to prepare young people for agency in the real world.

[Mharème @mhareme__]

@DStrachman Thank you!

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

One of my jobs as a farm kid was helping the sows give birth, sometimes at three in the morning. You pull the mucus from a piglet's mouth so it can breathe, then watch it find its way to the mother.

At eight years old, I had real responsibility, and the stakes were real.

We have decided that childhood should be free of anything that matters, then act surprised when teenagers feel useless. Kids can carry far more than we hand them.

[Habib Fall @hfall667]

once you see it, you can't unsee it.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

I did not become a believer in economic freedom because I read Hayek or Milton Friedman.

I became one because I tried to build.

When you build in Senegal and then build in America, you see the difference in your bones. One system says, "Go try." The other keeps asking why you think you deserve permission.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

Sad people have problems.
Happy people have problems.
Poor people have problems.
Rich people have problems.

The only people who don't have problems are--dead people.

Be grateful you get to have problems, it means you’re alive.

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

What can a vintage refrigerator tell us about capitalism? Quite a lot, actually!

Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“You cannot be interested and inconsistent.”

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

My wife and I created a Montessori-inspired school for working class children in rural Senegal. It is working well.

Our head of school just wrote up this, with footage from the school.

Thank you, @mhareme__ for writing this piece.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

@Musings1945 My wife and I created a Montessori-inspired school for working class children in rural Senegal. It is working well.

Our head of school just wrote up this, with footage from the school.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

@fartfactory11 My wife and I created a Montessori-inspired school in Senegal, where the children are flourishing.

Our head of school just wrote this piece based on the school,

[Mharème @mhareme__]

https://t.co/PZL6fNnrqO

[⚭ @lekimgym]

Enjoy being while becoming

[Habib Fall @hfall667]

https://t.co/ZNdUID7hjb

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

I'm URGING college students, recent grads, and those planning to go into university: get proficient with AI, its tools, and find ways to make people's and businesses' lives better. 

Stay AHEAD of the curve.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

The poorest countries make it hard to do business.

The richest countries make it easy.

I ran companies in both Senegal and the United States.
In the US, I ordered cardboard boxes online and they arrived the next day.

In Senegal, it was a completely different story:

If I imported boxes, I had to deal with long shipping times, transportation costs, and a 45% tariff by the time they arrived.

The alternative was to get them locally, but that meant a minimum custom order of 1,000 boxes and an 8-week wait after the order was approved.

Most people forget this: poverty is the natural state. You don’t escape it when you make starting and running a business extremely hard.

When I looked at the data and saw the same pattern in every poor and rich country, I was shocked.

Nobody had ever explained it.

Why isn’t anyone talking about this?

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/kNfAIZcqin

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Markets are not perfect, but they are quick to correct mistakes. 

If a product is bad, people stop buying. If a restaurant is awful, it closes. 

Government mistakes can last decades, because government officials don’t pay the price for being wrong.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The hottest new programming language is English

[Mharème @mhareme__]

"Normal is forgotten. Only weird survives.