Bankster Life

Math is much closer to athletics than most people realize.

There is a case to be made that the future of Mathematics is very bright. In my mind, proofs have always been a tool to achieve a goal. The goal was and still is to understand, and reading/writing proofs (or just know that they exist) will remain part of it.

got a framed copy to hang by the ai team

@sama What about us who have been paying all along?

codex is the best AI coding product and we want to make it easy to try. for the next 30 days, we are giving companies that want to try switching over two months of free codex usage.

@flowidealism What’s an example of a Socratic conversation you would have with her at that young age?

Alana started having Socratic conversations with me when she was four. At thirteen she finished Harvard's CS50 computer science course, is in the top 1% on the SAT verbal, and is reading 19th century classic novels with me. Nine years of practicing sustained intellectual focus has paid off.

My conversation with @jliemandt on why the future of education is better than you think. 0:00 The current education system 7:01 What makes Alpha School different 11:01 What are the results 23:20 Current classroom struggles 26:40 What does mastery mean? 35:37 Changing the education system 39:19 Teaching through AI 44:27 How do you solve motivation? 57:01 What makes a good teacher? 1:01:04 Coaching 1:05:17 What life skills matter? 1:08:18 Doing hard things 1:13:25 AI Monitoring 1:21:08 Effort vs. IQ 1:24:40 What happens after Alpha School? 1:38:21 The Genius of Jack Welch 1:45:49 Trilogy IPO: the choice to not go public 1:51:40 Physical vs. virtual learning 2:03:18 Does Paying Kids To Learn work? 2:11:01 What Is Success For You? (Includes paid partnerships)

These were all released within 57 days of each other in 1991

I wonder if there's anything in the Bible about golden idols and stuff

@asmartbear What do you do if your product is more episodic in nature and not needed daily?

First get your cancellation rate under control (at least for your ICPs), and then focus on creating NRR ≥ 100%. Here’s the full story, with a real-world example, of why this is the correct order of operations, and how to measure things along the way: longform.asmartbear.com/max-mrr/?utm_s…

You only live once, so make sure to spend as much time as possible on your computer. You won’t have access to it when you die

Every time you reread before trying to recall, you rob yourself of an opportunity to strengthen your retention.

You get good at anything by doing it a lot. Just do things a lot It's not time spent. It's volume of doing. Make sure the time it takes you to do a single thing is as fast as possible. Your cycle time is sacred

Research data from 160,000 adults in 31 countries concludes that a sizeable home library gave teens skills equivalent to university graduates. Build a home library.

The people who look naturally skilled often paid for that skill in concrete reps nobody wanted to watch.

Parents sometimes mistake busywork for rigor when, in reality, all they're getting is hours of worksheets. Our program is intellectually demanding in real time. A student spends two hours in Socratic dialogue, defending an interpretation of Plato against eleven peers who disagree. She must rephrase what the person before her said to that person's satisfaction before she can respond. She must use evidence from the text. She must think in real time, out loud, in front of people she respects. She comes out mentally exhausted. That is rigor. Then she spends two hours in Integrated STEM, starting with a math competition problem, moving through a Socratic discussion of a scientific concept, and then working through Math Academy at her own pace. If she is ahead, she races forward. If she is behind, she has tutors available twenty hours a week, all summer, at no extra cost. On Wednesday, she takes an elective in Python coding, Digital Marketing, or Video Production. She works on a real project. At the end of the semester, she presents her progress at the student showcase. There are no worksheets. There are no busy-work assignments. But there is no coasting either. The students in our program work hard. They just work hard on what matters to them, and the evidence of their work is visible to everyone.

@readswithravi A Random Walk Down Wall Street

What’s a book that you will never stop recommending?

Mark Cuban says you only have to be right once in your life. "It doesn't matter how many times you fail, you only have to be right once, then everybody can call you an overnight success." "I've had a lot of success in my life and I've had failures. And you'll laugh at the failures." "I've been fired from more jobs than you've probably had." "I started a powdered milk company. Yeah, you never heard of it. It sucked. I thought, 'Hey, it's powdered milk. It's cheaper than regular milk. So what if it doesn't taste quite as good?' Yeah, people like milk that tastes good. It doesn't matter how many times I failed." "I only had to be right one time."

Mark Cuban reveals he only uses E-MAILS to run all his businesses, no meetings or phone calls "It's got to be an email." "So, a lot of people ask about my daily routine and you're going to be shocked. I look at my phone or I'm looking at a laptop and I'm on there 8, 9, 10 hours a day." "Am I going to meetings? No. Am I taking phone calls? No. Am I going to some office somewhere? No." "When I was working my way up, I always had to work to somebody else's schedule. When I finally sold my companies and had enough money to stand on my own, prior to getting an iWatch, the first thing I did was get rid of a watch. I didn't wear a watch for 30 years because I didn't want to be on anybody else's time." "And now, finally, because people pretty much kiss my ass when it comes to business, I can tell them I'm doing everything via email. Period end of story. And because of that, I can get everything done by sitting on a laptop or a phone anywhere in the world and that works out really well."

“Rumination is the path to unhappiness.” - J Cal “Nobody gives a sh*t about your feelings.” “It's only going to make you miserable.” “Just do what I've been doing for 30 years: Retardmaxxing.” “All you have to do is work. Start new projects, 9 out of 10 fail. One wins, and you're golden. Go sit courtside at the Knicks game.” “Keep going. Just keep moving forward. Don't write anything down.”