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As we build The School of Entrepeneuring, we’ve realized that the fundamental challenge in education today isn’t about content or delivery. It’s about the problems we ask students to solve. The problems aren’t just dull but dangerously irrelevant. The result, as expected, is that we’re boring kids to death helping them hone obsolete skills while…
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I’m going to start this essay with an ask. Please invest 5:57 watching the video below. It’s from 1966. In it, the BBC asked kids what life would be like in 2000. It’s worth it for their responses (and their dope British accents). I’ll see you below after you’ve watched. What struck you? I was…
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The way we teach in our schools has been putting kids to sleep for 1000 years. Peer instruction is a teaching method pioneered by Harvard professor Dr Eric Mazur. It is criminally under appreciated.
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As we build The School of Entrepreneuring, we are always looking to learn from innovative schools (like this one). I stumbled upon another one recently which I had to highlight. In the video below, Guido Sarducci breaks down his idea for The 5 Minute University where you’d get a diploma for $20. In just 5…
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As I research the most effective instructional approaches are for The School of Entrepreneuring, I’ve been amazed (maybe dismayed is a better word) by how much jargon, confusion and overlap there is among these philosophies. As I talk to teachers, administrators, school founders, etc, one will tell me about the great success they’re having with…
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Charlie Munger, of Berkshire Hathaway fame, famously once said I want to know where I’m going to die so I will never go there. While humorously expressed, this is a profound example of inversion theory — a mental model that looks to avoid mistakes to increase the odds of success. When I was looking to…
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We are seeking an experienced consultant to help develop and implement a comprehensive curriculum for our School of Entrepreneuring (6th to 12th). The role will initially focus on development of our 6th grade curriculum. School background Our school’s success will be judged by our ability to deliver on 1 outcome: Cultivating capable leaders. A leader…
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Disclaimer: I’ve never been a hired CEO and have only brought on one CEO, and it is still early days on this transition. In other words, I have an n=1, and the story is still being written. YMMV. I recently spoke with Alex Bridgeman on his great podcast “Think Like an Owner”, and he asked…
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Data itself has no intrinsic value. Let me say that again for budding data entrepreneurs. Data itself has no intrinsic value. After my first appearance on the My First Million pod with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri, a bunch of folks reached out saying they had a dataset on X or Y (or an idea…
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Harvard’s number of undergrads hasn’t grown in 40+ years. Their endowment has grown 67% in the last 10 years. Why aren’t the “smartest people in the world” increasing access to their ‘world class education’ with all these resources?
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Henry Rowan was an MIT grad who decided MIT didn’t need more money. Absolute legend.
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Have you ever seen a strider balance bike? They’re bikes where kids move along Flintstone style with just their feet and without pedals. They advance themselves by just pushing off with their feet (what’s called “striding”). This teaches them mastery of the most important part of riding a bike which is balance. Once they have…
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What would you do if you saw your mother running with a football? This is a passage from one of the best books about leadership, teamwork, and motivation I’ve ever read… …and surprisingly, it’s about a high school football team The book is Chasing Perfection: The Principles Behind Winning Football the De La Salle Way…
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When I ‘fired myself’ as CEO of CB Insights, other founders reached out asking how I knew it was time as they were considering similar Here’s how I decided. Every year, I evaluated myself on 2 dimensions: Am I excited about the type of work that lies ahead? (x-axis) Do I have what the company…
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It’s perhaps weird to say a book about sports and data changed my life. It’s even stranger when that book is about baseball — a sport I have near zero interest in watching but which I admire deeply for its relentless desire and ability to use data and technology to innovate and look for an…