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This is a mock lesson we generated for ED-E to go with the module we generated. ED-E is an AI-native online university that rivals or surpasses what current traditional universities can offer. We are changing the 1:many teacher student ratio (which is ineffective) to a 1:1 teacher student ratio. Whatever you need to learn, ED-E builds your curriculum and teaches you in real time. Education needs an upgrade and ED-E is it. @ycombinator - we could really use your help in fast tracking the inevitable rise of AI powered education! @synthesia awesome software!

This is the type of work I can get behind!

The South African robotics project has officially launched We will be creating robots right here in South Africa South Africa winning everyday😭😭

On a hike in San Francisco several years ago, @photomatt recommended I read “The Tail End” by @waitbutwhy on the Wait But Why blog—if you only read one article this month, make it that one. It uses diagrams to underscore how short life really is. Here’s just one gem: “It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end.” Might be time for you (and me) to rethink our personal priorities.

SpaceX rocketships are the stagecoach of the space age 🚀

@paulg @bscholl Teaching how to start a startup looks like this: Start building something until you hit a roadblock. Speak to someone that can help you clear that roadblock quicker than you can on your own...Repeat... That's teaching startup in a nutshell.

@bscholl Which incidentally is why colleges can't teach students how to start startups.

The best way to learn to do a thing is to do the thing.

I am using Claude Code for the first time. Its 01h36 in the morning. Claude is coding away and suddenly I hear a voice come through my computer - "I couldn't reach my thoughts just now. Try once more". As a non-coder, this made me a little itchy. The "machine" told the Claude Code it "can't reach its thoughts" without me inputting anything. Felt weird.

Matthew McConaughey on why studying the people you admire is keeping you stuck. "Everybody who's achieved something great was some sort of outlaw. Some sort of hustler. Out of balance, out of whack, dark times." "Model the rise not the result. Because the result is where they're at now. Do not ask Warren Buffett about how long he spends reading the newspaper. That guy was a hustler." "What did you do when you were at the stage that I am at? Not what do you do now? I want to get to where you are. That means I don't do what you do now. I do what you did to get there." "We do overpraise balance a bit. I think a better pursuit is try and find the rhyme in the imbalance." "What's better? Take eight big risk in life, sin once, but get seven. Or take a hundred risks and achieve eight of them. My hunch is there's a God saying go for the hundred and get eight rather than eight and get seven." "If you're not taking enough risk to sin or miss the mark, which is what sin means, to fail, then what are you doing, man?" "If you fail you chop your leg off and announce that the desire for legs is misguided and must be subdued. By not trying to play the game there is no risk of failure." "If failure comes along, it doesn't hurt as much. But it also means that success is less likely. And if success comes along, you know that you didn't really earn it."

It's ironic that us having to invent something like AI, will actually take us back to the original form of learning - one mentor to one student - this is the way our brains learn best. Thanks for sharing @JonhernandezIA

@JonhernandezIA @FabAcademic - interesting - it speaks to what we briefly exchanged ideas on today.

“AI will force us to redesign school.” Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says AI should teach knowledge while classrooms develop human skills. Education shifts from standardized instruction to personalized learning, creativity, judgment, and collaboration. AI does not replace school. It changes what school is for.

Peter Thiel explains why all the successful people in tech are suffering from a mild form of Asperger’s:  “We need to flip this around—why is it that people NOT suffering from Asperger’s are at a disadvantage in our society?” “They're in effect talked out of their interesting original ideas before they're even fully formed.” “I often think of business school as the anti-Asperger's demographic.”

New founders are often told to build version 1 of a product and ship it, get feedback and ship v2. Is that because new founders lack insights to ship a proper product for v1 or simply because you need real world feedback? My thoughts are that if you are an industry veteran, you can probably ship V1 with more bells and whistles because you know what the industry wants, instead of shipping a half baked v1 just for the sake of it

@kelvinbuildss Maybe for now, knowing what to tell your AI to change when it has done the work (deep subject matter expertise and real world experience) is what will help you feel relevant...

Now that we can ask AI everything, what is still worth learning today ?

Do the title Professor or PhD still carry weight post AI?

Education in its purest form is one master and one apprentice

@danielstuski @launchable_ @better_reviews Keep going - unless you have a family that are impacted. Consult part time if that is the case. But don't stop working on your idea. 4 months is a blip on the radar.

4 months ago I quit my 9-5 to focus on my product. today: under $1K MRR, 8 months of runway left. my options: a) go back to a job b) consult part-time c) pray revenue grows faster what would you actually do in my place? (honest answers only, not what sounds good on LinkedIn)

The pace at which we are racing into the singularity is astounding. Companies all over the place are just integrating out of free will with each other, Claude for this, ChatGPT for that, agents for this. Amazing

@MichaelJordaan In laymans terms, what is money growth? Actual more money in an individual/countries "pocket"?

There is a strong positive link between money growth and inflation, but little to no positive association between money growth and real economic growth

Pride has killed more startup ideas than lack of money ever will... Ask for help!

@FabAcademic Thank you for the insights. If I may add: Universities teaching to the standardised test is the bottleneck. It has to be about capabilities going forward in my humble opinion.

This week I am elsewhere on the African continent working with universities on the future of teaching, research & academic publishing in the era of AI. Universities have spent decades asking students to remember information. Useless exercise! Now we have AI & it remembers almost everything. Now university academics can no longer ask: “What do students know?” They must ask: “What can students do with what they know that AI cannot?” That single question may reshape how we teach, assess, research & publish over the next decade. I’d be interested to hear how others think universities should respond.

Building a startup as of late is a lot of ...prompt Claude....check socials and emails....Prompt Claude...make a cup of tea...reprimand Claude...Repeat