Anand Sanwal

On April 17, 2017, my dad passed away For the last 13 months, I worked @CBinsights and also ran his chemical manufacturing biz in India It was acquired on June 1 Lessons, thank yous and observations here cbinsights.com/research/team-…

ChatGPT study retracted In 2025, Nature featured an article which boldly concluded: "continuous use of ChatGPT should be ensured to support student learning, with a recommended duration of 4–8 weeks for more stable effects" This paper was breathlessly cited by folks in edtech, AI and the research community. It now has 359 citations. And it just got retracted. It quietly got retracted with Nature writing that they "decided to retract this article due to concerns relating to discrepancies in the meta‑analysis....the identified issues undermine the Editor’s confidence in the validity of the analysis and the conclusions drawn from it. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction." So many people are going to miss this retraction and just remember that Nature once said AI is good for learning It is not. Spread the word.

Is this just Indian Dads or all immigrant dads? This is my 3rd and 4th grade life very accurately retold

If I see avocados 🥑 in your cover letter... ...I know to discard your application @ForgePrep always on the bleeding edge 🤣

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@asanwal btw any top take aways from each of the books on your list ?

The only 4 biz books I've ever re-read [marketing] Ogilvy on Advertising by Ogilvy [systems/ops] The Goal by Goldratt [sales] Influence by Cialdini [product] The Mom Test by Fitzpatrick IMO, all you need What's your top 4?

my 1 line takeaway from each Ogilvy - Great marketing comes from understanding customers better than others Goal: A system moves as fast as its biggest bottleneck, so fix the main constraint above all else Influence: People aren't rational. They decide psychologically & then justify it rationally Mom: Don't ask people if they like your idea. Watch what they actually do & pay for.

@thesamparr sarcasm to be clear extractive, parasitic capitalism at its finest

@thesamparr Sam - they are democratizing access to markets Pls leave them alone

I really think what Polymarket, Kalshi, etc are doing to young men is very, very bad. I don't think it should be illegal. But I do think that in 10-20 years, we will see some major issues with a generation guys who developed gambling addictions at a very young age.

@frankgoertzen great list..thx

@asanwal The Road Less Stupid The Most Important Thing Zero to One How to Get Rich without Being Lucky

@rvivek i don't care the book is great

@asanwal Why do you think Fitzpatrick wasn’t able to build a successful product? Not a shade but curious.

I ❤️ blowhards who dress up their vibes as expertise. In the WSJ article about @ForgePrep, a Stanford University Graduate School of Education professor said our model "might" narrow our student body and "can inadvertently" diminish teachers. No research. No facts. Just feelings. The same ed schools that architected our current failing system are quick to invent hypothetical harms from new schools, while never auditing the system they've helped build. So before Stanford GSE predicts our future crimes, I'd suggest they audit their own record first. Two more facts for the professor: * Our guide salaries start at $100k, materially above avg NJ salaries. We've had 1200+ teachers apply for the Guide role at Forge since Feb so it appears many are eager to be "diminished" * Compare our students on socioeconomic diversity with any private school you want. We know talent is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, and that is why 1/3 of our inaugural class received financial aid to make Forge accessible. 🤡

@gw_smiles Damn! Making moves. Congrats Garrett. Love to see this.

🚨Huge news! 🚨 This September, Sora is opening a public school in partnership with the Torrance Unified School District in Los Angeles. It's called Torrance Meridian Academy. Public, tuition-free, and built on Sora's model: our project-based curriculum, our software, our training. All with the full weight of a top public school district and its facilities behind us. We open with grades 5-8 this September, and we'll grow to high school over the next few years. Torrance Meridian is a hybrid school. Students learn through live, remote classes Monday through Thursday. On Fridays, they have the option to show up in person at Torrance Unified facilities and premier community spots: brand-new stadiums, eight-lane tracks, full performing arts centers, an Olympic-quality aquatic center. And mind-blowing field trips every few weeks. This is one of the most ambitious public-private partnerships education has seen, and I think it's the path forward for how this country does school. We should NOT tear down public education in the name of innovation: public schools can offer a wide range of quality options within their own walls, so every student has access to the right path for them. Torrance Meridian Academy’s success could genuinely change the trajectory of public education. Pass this along to all 5th-8th-grade families in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Kern, or San Bernardino counties! The link is in the comments. Limited enrollment opens today!

Prediction: privatization of youth sports will make the US and US athletes less competitive in athletics over the next several decades Let's use medal tallies in the Olympics as the bar

@laurapatranella Interesting. Who do you put into this category?

@asanwal So many of the legacy options in morris county are shells of what they were even 15 years ago.

From the Wall Street Journal

@cheprofessor We are not using AI tutors at @ForgePrep although we use AI in a lot of our administrative functions Of course, our students will learn how to use AI to solve problems, build biz, create products, etc but our belief is education should be more human, not less

It IS too early to tell on how AI will impact education as we know it - but there there are early signs of AI being powerful in helping students learn even as it is expensive and resource intensive to assemble such systems (for now). In one sense, there is nothing really new with "AI" in education - it is as if HUGE numbers of well trained and motivated human beings are recruited as "AI" agents and then trained, supervised by humanI for motivated and dedicated students

@danakatit @lionel_mora cool..thank you

@lionel_mora @asanwal you might find this relevant.

Following the amazing reaction to the Marble Curriculum yesterday, we've decided to make it open source 🛰️👇 Everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts. 3,221 connections across 8 subjects, from Math and Science to Computing and Life Skills. Anchored in the US and UK curriculums, standard by standard (NGSS, Common Core, DfE). What you will find in the repo: every concept as structured JSON with its age band and the evidence a child must show to master it. Every prerequisite link marked hard or soft, with a written rationale. It's a true DAG you can compute learning paths on. Open license, you can build whatever you want with it. Now is a unique time in history to be building in education. Getting AI and kids education right is likely one of the hardest and most important problems to crack over the next decade and we need as many smart and creative minds behind it. We think a common solid basis, accessible to all and that can be built upon, is critical to move fast. That's why we're making this curriculum open source. It's not perfect but we know it's a robust basis, and we believe that sharing it openly is the fastest way to progress in this field. If you're building in education, share this around you and tell us in comments if you find this useful and if you want to contribute. We'll keep working and investing on it @withmarbleapp. Credit goes to @guillaume_boni for building this. I just made it look pretty. Links below 👇

@CristinCulver We see 3 doors * college * workforce * "go pro" in business aka entrepreneurship as we invest $200k in them if they choose this path The 3rd door is a new one that no other schools offer

@asanwal Q, and maybe it’s too early, but where do these k-12 kids go for college? Are they happy to assimilate back into traditional universities or are they looking for some alternative to higher ed, too?

@ben_m_somers appreciate you Ben. Thanks.

@asanwal i saw this and was hyped for you + Forge!