🎤Andy Field 🎙

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I taught financial literacy to 8th graders as part of a larger STEM curriculum and at the end of the year a surprising number of kids rated it as their favorite unit - stiff competition with 3D modeling, robotics, and emerging technology! I think it's got to be done at their level.

One of my "hotter" takes on this subject is every high school could implement this tomorrow, and it wouldn't make a big difference. 99% of 14-18 year olds don't care about money. They care about dating, friends, making varsity, and getting As & Bs so mom/dad don't yell at them.

@DaveMallinak "Well prepared and rich in content". And well-delivered. That means rehearsed and re-written, and re-rehearsed. That's a tall order for 999 out of 1000 preachers. Can you do it weekly, and manage expectations too?

Hot take: God's people are hungry for the Word. They don't mind an hour long sermon if it is well prepared and rich in content.

@bjmlong @Iamivy05

@Iamivy05 An A So, how about the students that did the work and earned the grades? I presume it was for a five star athlete You can congratulate yourself forever I'm not applauding

confession: my first semester teaching undergrads, i lost a student's midterm exam. (I knew he turned it in, I knew he didn't do well on it, but when it came time to enter the grades online, his exam disappeared). I said nothing and gave him an A. The next time I saw him in class, we locked eyes and I knew he knew I knew he knew

@ArbPoly @Kalshi But if you pick every game at 100% accuracy, your odds are 1 in 1

@Kalshi Sounds generous until you do the math: 63 games, 9.2 quintillion possible combinations. Even if you pick every game at 65% accuracy, your odds are about 1 in 2.8 billion 🤔

The $1 Billion Kalshi Perfect Bracket Challenge $1 Billion for a perfect bracket $1 Million guaranteed to the top scoring bracket $1 Million to charity and scholarships See the full rules and submit your bracket: kalshi.com/billion-dollar… No purchase or deposit required. SIG Parametrics, LLC, a member of the Susquehanna International Group of Companies, is financially backing this promotion.

@marcaross @Kalshi Nobody wants to read this AI-generated slop. I've already done my bracket and it's a guaranteed winner, based on my expert knowledge

There is no billion-dollar bracket, just a marketing campaign Kalshi just announced a $1 billion prize for a perfect March Madness bracket. They will not pay it. Bet on it. The math makes it impossible. And they know it. This is one of the most elegant free marketing campaigns in recent memory, and every business leader should take notes. Consider that every NCAA tournament game was a pure coin flip, your odds of a perfect 63-game bracket are 1 in 9.2 quintillion. A quintillion has 18 zeros. Fine, let's be generous. Credit expert basketball knowledge. Account for seeding, form, and injury reports. Statisticians estimate the realistic odds fall somewhere between 1 in 120 billion and 1 in 1 trillion. Pick your number. It doesn't matter. You won't win. Kalshi's $1 billion prize is backed by SIG Parametrics, a member of the Susquehanna International Group of Companies that helps Kalshi manage trading risks. This is not a leap of faith. It is actuarially risk-free. Warren Buffett tried the same play in 2014 through Quicken Loans. One billion dollars for a perfect bracket. The best entry that year didn't survive the first round with a perfect record. Nobody came close. Nobody ever does. So what if you actually tried? Here is where it gets interesting. Suppose you built the best bracket-prediction system ever created. World-class data science. Elite sports modeling. A proper $25 to $30 million investment in talent and infrastructure. You would get to 75% accuracy per game. That sounds impressive. Run it across 63 games, and your odds of a perfect bracket improve from 1 in 9.2 quintillion to roughly 1 in 290,000. Better, but still significant downside risk. The theoretical ceiling for correctly predicting any individual game is around 75-80%. Basketball is not a deterministic system. Upsets happen. Buzzer beaters happen. Players twist an ankle in warmups. Even a god-tier model cannot solve for chaos. So what is Kalshi really doing? Brilliant. Free. Marketing. Kalshi gets its brand in front of millions of bracket-obsessed Americans at the most culturally engaged sports moment of the year. They spend nothing on the headline prize. They gain enormous brand visibility, new account creation, and a credibility halo from associating with a number that rewires the brain. The promotion is not about probability. It is about positioning. Every week, senior executives encounter their own version of the billion-dollar bracket: a market entry pitch with asymmetric downside, a partnership with headline upside and buried structural risk, a policy assumption that sounds stable until it isn't. The number on the cover looks transformative. The actual odds are buried in the footnotes. Reading the real odds is the job. At Caracal Global, we help Fortune 1,000 executives and private equity leaders read the fine print on geopolitical risk. Not the headline number. Not the press release version. The actual odds are embedded in tariff policy, supply chain exposure, government relations, and cross-border market strategy. If your team is navigating volatility that looks manageable on the surface, we should talk. Enjoy the ride + plan accordingly. -Marc

@ajraygator @Noname60639560 @hodge520 The phrase he used was "money makers for the school"

@AndyFVoiceActor @Noname60639560 @hodge520 Well , they don’t have to be for profit when the day comes that the refs are free , the uniforms are free . The equipment is free , and the transportation is free .

All public school students should have free admission into all athletic events at their respective schools.

@CryptoX0r @stevemagness That wouldn't make ME bubble in "highly satisfied" in a survey. Maybe I'm odd. I mean, I AM odd, but I don't think so in this case.

In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job. In 2022, that dropped to 12%. We've got a serious problem brewing in education...

@rondeaulivia @JSchleicher17 the notion that you gather as believers for a single hour each week to worship God, and there's a whole program of hard-to-follow stuff that no one can understand, is wild. The whole thing didn't strike you as completely counter to your God-given intuition?

@JSchleicher17 Yes I did, although it was still a little difficult to follow along because I kept looking up to watch the service. I had never seen those rituals before. I will try to go back another time

I went to my first ever Latin mass this morning and it was very beautiful and intriguing. Grew up Baptist and currently go to a nondenominational church so I’ve never seen anything like that. Several people asked who I was (small church) but were very welcoming lol

@shatterdvisage @stevemagness I made no such implication. You made that inference unnecessarily. Good day.

@AndyFVoiceActor @stevemagness You asked what was happening "at that peak" as if it was discontinuous from the long run trend.

@shatterdvisage @stevemagness what you just said is literally how the word "peak" is defined. We COULD talk about ANY year's number being higher than the current 12%, but the original poster used that year, since it was the "peak" on this graph.

@AndyFVoiceActor @stevemagness Not much of a peak, the trend was steadily upwards for 20 years. A couple things that were not happening during that period were smartphones and social media.

@1045espn A 50 year old man wearing a backwards ball cap unironically is wild

Lane Kiffin at St. Paddy’s day in Baton Rouge

@Noname60639560 @hodge520 Schools aren't for-profit

@hodge520 The sport events, especially football and basketball, are money makers for the school. Tickets and concessions will bring in thousands per games.

@Hoopss Well, I guess they'd have had to mail this to me, since I've already signed it and walked out

how do you respond to this?!

@Block__Chad @stevemagness Doesn't seem in line with human nature - gratitude is awesome and healthy, but hard to embrace. Something had to be making the job better than in previous or subsequent years

@AndyFVoiceActor @stevemagness Grateful for their jobs during the recession

Here's a metaphor outside of the classroom. The US Army's Airborne school trains parachutists (not skydivers, just static-line chutes). The skills you learn to wear the coveted Army parachutist badge can be taught AND mastered in a few hours - they're quite simple: Actions in the aircraft, exiting the aircraft, actions during the 30-second descent, and landing. The course is 3 weeks long, and students are fed and housed the entire time. Why is the course so long? Because on any given day, there are several hundred to a thousand students in the course. Most of the course is spent waiting. It ends with 5 jumps from an aircraft, which take the better part of the third week to complete. As you can imagine, that week is also mostly waiting. But if we NEEDED someone trained on this stuff quickly, we could push all of this stuff on him, including actual jumps, in a day. Kind of like trying to teach a 5-minute thing to 30 kids in an hour. It doesn't get taught well, and some kids still don't really get it.

People don’t realize how much busy work exists just to stretch learning across a 7–8 hour school day. I was helping in another teacher’s class the other day. She had a list of 10 assignments on the board: “If you’re finished… do this next.” All this just to keep the rest of the class occupied while she tried to help the students who were struggling. Students who can learn at even an average pace are given more work, when they could be coding an app, designing a game, or writing a business plan or book.

Or, if you prefer: Nope — no grandfather clause. 😄Same thing happened with a bunch of other once-perfectly-normal writing habits that now read like AI fingerprints:• Clever rhetorical pivots • Generous use of emojis 😅 • Those neat little button-ups that wrap a paragraph in a tidy bow 🎀 • And yes… the beloved em dash — once a sign of stylish writing, now a little suspiciousNone of those were invented by AI. Humans used them for years. But the moment a pattern gets strongly associated with machines, the vibe shifts.So if the goal is to sound like a current human writer, the rule is simple:• Shorter • Plainer • Fewer polished flourishes • A little more messy-human energyLanguage evolves. Style markers change.No grandfather clause — just the normal churn of writing culture. ✍️😄

@Bob_Wachter Nope. Same with tons of clever pivots, emojis, and neat little button-ups at the end. You'll have to adjust to writing like current humans write!

I've used em-dashes my whole life — they add rhythm and grace to writing. But now they're an AI tell. Can we get a grandfather clause for those of us who were fluent in em-dashes before ChatGPT launched in November 2022?

@tmyrbrgh @MrDanielBuck I'm the same way. I hired a building contractor to build me a house and told him that I cared more about quality than arbitrary deadlines and he is really doing a good quality job on it. He started in 2010 and I think he might finish this year

@MrDanielBuck I see your point but I care more about the quality than when it is turned in, I want to train them to take their time and not rush

Later into my teaching career, I set a simple classroom rule: No late work, none Kids didn’t start failing en masse Instead, they all started turning their work in on time, no rush of late assignments at semester’s end, fewer students falling behind It was a more humane rule

@TXMCtrades @stevemagness Techniques "statisticians" use to sell a story that isn't always the whole truth. I used to share things like this with my math students. Another common trick the media uses (and maybe I'm giving them too much credit) is distorting the scale of a graph

@stevemagness What on planet earth is the cadence of the x-axis? After 1989 the gaps are 6 years, 6 years, 2 years, 3 year, 2 years, 1 year, 2 years, 1 year, 10 years. Wtf ?