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How elite education creates high-achieving but risk-averse students who struggle to think for themselves.
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Like ghost kitchens that exist only on delivery apps, these nonprofits exist only on college applications.
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This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. In the grand theater of American higher education, few performances are as anticipated—or as controversial—as the annual unveiling of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Like a high-stakes beauty pageant for academia,…
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This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here’s a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can’t be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here’s a trickier one: how do you fix this mess when…
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I fired myself as CEO of CB Insights earlier this year. After announcing this, some early-stage B2B startup founders reached out to asking me to advise them or join their board. I had never done any advisory work of this type but having made every mistake in the book so why not? I did it…
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Jason Blum, founder of Blumhouse Productions, has pioneered a revolutionary approach to filmmaking that’s both critically acclaimed and financially lucrative. With 42 movies grossing over $50 million each on modest production budgets, Blumhouse has generated $6 billion in sales. For every dollar invested in a Blumhouse movie, it has generated $8.2 in revenue.1 I spent…
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Instead of making our kids numerate and literate, they appease us with bread and circuses. It’s a trick as old as the Roman Empire.
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As we look for a home for The School of Entrepreneuring, one area we’re analyzing is universities and colleges that are closing or ideally which may be on the precipice of closing. Per the Hechinger Report, colleges and universities are closing at the rate of 1 per week right now which is an acceleration from…
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I’d previously highlighted Carnegie’s 23 traits of an attractive personality. Here are Andrew Carnegie’s 45 causes of failure. 1. Habit of drifting through life without a definite major purpose 2. Unfavorable physical heredity at birth 3. Habit of meddlesome curiosity into other people’s affairs 4. Inadequate preparation for the work in which one engages 5.…
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I watched the documentary In Search of Greatness which features elite athletes like Wayne Gretzky and Jerry Rice tonight. It’s a quick watch and interesting. Below are my notes/favorite ideas:
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Imagine a school where the number of books checked out from the library is used to judge the school’s literacy efforts. Absurd, right? Yet this mirrors the reality in many American government schools today (note: my focus is on public, government-funded middle and high schools). A conversation with a brilliant public school teacher recently illuminated…
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As we build out The School of Entrepreneuring, we’ve been thinking about what types of businesses students in middle or high school can start and even scale. Our criteria were simple. Find business ideas that meet students where they tend to be aka: With that in mind, here is our list of business ideas for…
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Heard these while listening to The Wisdom of Success by Andrew Carnegie & Napoleon Hill. Pretty timeless advice tbh. Developing these attributes in young people would be much more valuable than learning trigonometry.