Education would be vastly improved if we found ways to intelligently add more competition. I think >80% my enjoyment in school was due to competition. Timed multiplication tests, competitive trivia games, a year of accelerated math to beat the test for honors.

when physical labor became optional we invented the gym. we’ll need the same thing for the mind

Today, you and Jeff Bezos have the same phone. More money can't buy you a better phone. We will do this for education. A kid sitting in Bulgaria or Lagos will have access to the same quality of education as a billionaire in silicon valley.

again if you think you were a gifted kid you weren’t. your education was too easy

The kindest thing you can do to kids who think they're smart is to put them all together in the same room and have them keep each other humble.

One lesson of the modern age is that more information isn’t the panacea people thought it’d be. The Internet, and now ChatGPT, gave us instant access to all the world’s information and yet people are as anxious, lonely, overweight and depressed as ever. Most people know what to

My honest thoughts after doing this: - I’m happy to be back on X - I’m also very happy to have been off of it for 2 weeks - X is an incredible corner of the web right now, and easily the most important in the world of AI, software, building, and investing. You simply have to

Sahil Bloom "Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind" Epictetus Or in this case, what you let happen outside of it ...

I believe the idea of education reform is foolish and unlikely to be driven by incumbents We need a revolution. Not reform. We need to stop pretending that patience is a virtue when it comes to children’s education. anandsanwal.me/false-promise-…

Jim Cramer of news

We are descendants of apes. Everyone should be spending more time with their hands overhead and hanging from things. Thank you for your attention to this matter

One of the coolest parts about parenting is you get to relive life basically. You aren’t so jaded anymore. Your kid is excited about seeing a cat, a boat, a garbage truck, and now you’re excited about it too, when previously you wouldn’t have even considered them for a second.

Nobody prepared me for how sad it is the first time your kids start saying something correctly after years of cute mispronunciation

We need a name for the positive version of “trauma": an overwhelmingly n̵e̵g̵a̵t̵i̵v̵e̵ positive experience that throws your worldview into disarray, forcing you to reckon with the fact that life can be much w̶o̶r̶s̶e̵ better than you assumed.

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "grave discussion of public events we must feel sad about". we've totally lost the sense of play. hold your beliefs loosely, laugh.

The emergence of “slop” was foretold as soon as we started consuming content via “the feed”

No one wants to hear this but the missing piece in Montessori is screens

This is 1000% true and one of the best pieces of tactical advice you can get for talking to toddlers. “Don’t X!” == “X!” It’s so counterintuitive and so hard to do consistently that it’s a “hack” that transcends itself to a whole practice of approaching toddlers differently.

Bitcoin trading like it’s in the Epstein files

who's building the Ad Blocker equivalent for AI slop?