Don Ariel (a proud dyslexic)

Perceptual Learning (pattern discrimination skills) starts and grows with every pattern recognition loop. Does it sound like exercise?

The beginning of a new golden age of human work. Class differential (income inequality) should get more into the fairway. The question is how will citizens and the wealthy express themselves through the powers of personal choice and governmental coercion. Interesting times. I expect carveouts (lawyers passing laws to protect the law profession) but it is just slowing an unstoppable realignment.

Dell confirmed 11,000 jobs cut in their annual filing. They spent $569 million on severance and called it “disciplined cost management.” It is the end of work as we know it.

@TolentinoTeach 13 year x 365 days = 4,745 words. Pick up another 16,000 through use and they are kicking!

Don’t underestimate the power of teaching ONE vocabulary word per day. ONE word a day not only adds up, but it builds momentum. Momentum builds confidence. Confidence breeds action. Before you know it, you have a student who is curious and confident about learning words.

@mskoriwilson An old mentor said "Change- at its very best- is inconvenient."

We love the idea of change. But we hate the process.

@damone_mike @RedsSuffering The were always a vocal ensemble hidden inside a rock band.

@RedsSuffering This is why they stole Timmy B from Poco

By far my favorite Eagles song…

@kelxyz_ Hiding in plain sight. A simple insight often is it. But then you have to believe in the deep opportunity in the DNA of the insight- and grind.

tao’s secret is that every problem in artificial intelligence boils down to a definable optimization problem that gpus can be incentivized to solve unsupervised.capital/writing/everyt…

Launched one before have you 🤣🤪🤓? Each one (over my 40 years) has been grueling- > if you want to get it right. Good products come from the forge of love, caring, and intense open-mindedness to make it useful, easy to operate, and work as advertised. Thats just PD and PMF. Sales is another hard hill to climb. Then scale. Angel investing is often more founder and idea qualifying than performance metrics (my view). That said- if it is a single purpose phone app- I get your point. It has to function and be pulling sales traction.

90% of startups will never launch a product. 90% of those will never get a customer. The biggest mistake angels make is getting in too early. Focusing on launched products will take a ton of zeros out of your portfolio. These days, there’s no excuse for not launching a product. It’s never been easier.

Cannot be planned- but apparently totally readable 🤣

@briannekimmel Gotta upskill the next economic boom

A company publishing fears, concerns, and negative experiences is refreshing and high integrity.

You are showing them how to tackle hard things with as much care and determination as you show them. What great modeling! They will need to read every day for the rest of their lives like working out. You are giving them belief and a hint at their own agency. I cannot think of a better way to close the gap. Individual reading scores recover slowly. But only when they learn to work for it themselves- outside class.

@DonKAriel That is what I remind myself of every day…no matter the reading outcomes, any one on one care is neuro protective.

Today at the hs: It was a gut-check alongside a lightbulb moment. 💡 In expressive language intervention, the least complex task is a personal retell. I thought I was lowering the cognitive load of learning writing structure for my students by creating prompts for their writing at the language equivalent of personal retells. Made logical sense... During discussion today, one student remarked that the worst part about writing is that all teachers force them to write about personal topics "like goals and stuff". It coincided with other comments I've heard from youth about being tired of mental health discussions. We are inadvertently lowering complexity of language by always trying to make content "relevant". It really became obvious - students are being repeatedly asked to write at the level of personal retells when their oral language capacity is far greater. I need to raise the level of language complexity in my content and prompts. @SoLInTheWild and others keep posting about this. But it became crystal clear to me today. I'd take any pointers on creating writing prompts to increase the level of academic language in responses!

@LizStepan That's new. Thanks!

@DonKAriel The Rabbit Effect

@parkerworth C) Talk to brilliant people

Would you rather: A) Listen to a podcast Or B) Read a book

@LizStepan Remember- it is you trying different things every day that is increasing interest in the biggest most steady way. It is you they will remember, not any task.

@DonKAriel 😅

@DonKAriel So brilliant. The sales side brings in persuasion…I could see this increasing interest in a big way!

Off the top of my head: Bring in a machine/device of some kind. Put it on a table. Task 1: is to look at it and talk about what it is to build a shared social vocabulary. Task 2: write a paragraph or two describing what it is, what it does, and how to use it. Task 3: (sales) describe a capability each writer likes. Describe that capability's features and benefits. Example: X Capability: X connects people from all over the world Feature: it is available on phones and computers Benefit: I can meet and learn from impassioned experts like Liz anywhere.

I have - esp for this group of students and their interests. I’d need to learn about teaching technical writing myself…thoughts on reading content? Do they pick their own? Do you think with a group of dyslexics that I should have them pick a video for content to save time for more focus on writing or do they really need the reading technical writing piece as well?

@bhalligan Two most important founder traits: too stupid to know better too hardheaded to quit.

Most successful entrepreneurs you talk to, if they're being honest, would say something along the lines of, "If I knew everything I know now, I would not have done it." The kind of people who decide they want to be founders because they think it is cool always fail. They fail because it's a deeply painful and lonely journey, and those people will jump ship. Maybe they are the smart ones. For the rest of you, it's a Long Strange Trip...

@RogierBrussee @davidbessis this reply was for you

@RogierBrussee Looks to be about three-hour torture session to get into the neighborhood of grasping the broad strokes. Ha. Be like someone purveying machine code from another domain. Mechanistic symbols and arithmetic logic are a whole other plane of pain :)

This is rather a beautiful example of modern math with very precise and profound statements (not to mention the great use Litt made of it for proving that certain Taylor expansions have rational coefficients) that look like total gibberish to those outside (and many inside) math.

@Imsouthern Pattern recognition

My son wears long-sleeves when temps are higher than 70°. That's the magic number for wasps and bees. That's what he has determined.

A month? You are still in the pink clouds stage. 6 months of daily topical training is stage 1. It and you are like toddlers with your subject. Tons of mistakes as it learns the subject and you, and you learn its mistake tendencies. I am over two years training one and it crushes topically and knows how I communicate. First drafts are amazing now. I still do three full edit cycles on anything important. Amplifies you. In many ways, the workload to use it is higher, but also more covenient.

Have been using OpenClaw for ~a month and it kinda sucks? I spend more time battling it to get basic crons fired reliably, remember things, and not repeat itself. Am I doing it wrong or are we just still very early on all of this?