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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  By early childhood, girls already perceive boys as academically inferior to themselves, while teachers rate girls as academically superior even when test scores show the opposite.

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  By four years of age, girls tend to think that boys are academically inferior to them. Teachers often see their female students as academically superior, even when aptitude tests show the opposite pattern for their classes.

  Dark Forest, Young Men, Blood Boyrobkhenderson.com

Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

From one piece Sold a Story: How We Failed to Teach Kids to Read 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Educational methods should be validated by measurable research, not by how satisfying they feel to students and teachers.

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  The deeper lesson is that education has to be research-based and proven to work measurably, not just based on positive emotions or customer satisfaction.

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  Traditional institutions like news outlets and teachers are being replaced by independent digital content creators as sources of everyday advice.

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  I think a lot of traditional sources of information and education - from cable news to newspapers to textbooks to teachers - are being replaced by digital content creators.

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Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

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  The teachers people remember changed them by removing a belief that they could not do something, not by teaching the material well.

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  the best teacher you had, like everybody remembers the one or two teachers who changed their life. It wasn't because they marked up your paper really well. That wasn't what did it for them. It was because you had some block. They saw you and they convinced you you could do so much more.

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

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  Teachers are the most important people in society and the ones the AI industry has most completely forgotten.

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  They are the most important people in our society. We should be talking to them. We should be uplifting them. We should be supporting them. We should be providing resources to them.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Learning should be made harder rather than easier, and a teacher's instinct to smooth the path is the first thing that goes wrong.

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  How can you make learning kind of uncomfortable, but that you'll remember things better? And it goes against a lot of our intuitions. A lot of teachers will want to say, how can we make learning easier? And I think that's probably the first problem is you don't want it to be easy.

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  In choosing what to learn, who is teaching it matters more than what it is, because your existing interests are fairly arbitrary and a good educator is not.

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  I feel like a relevant insight in learning was um recognizing that like who matters more than what. So, like advice to any college student when they're choosing what courses to take. Uh, care a little bit less about your pre-existing interests because they're kind of arbitrary right now. and care a little bit more about whether like the person teaching it is a good educator and someone you resonate with.

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  The best teachers, unlimited resources and every evidence-based intervention still fail on a student who does not want to learn.

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  You can staff a school with the best teachers on earth, give them unlimited resources, and wrap the place in every evidence-based intervention imaginable, and it still won’t work if students are resistant, disengaged, or actively hostile to the enterprise.

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Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.

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  The go-to-market plays all still work; it is the playbooks built around them that have stopped working.

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  So, so many of these GTM books are playbooks, especially folks selling courses and stuff, but they're playbooks. Run from the playbooks. Embrace the plays.

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Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.

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  A data centre earns its county far more tax revenue per gallon of water than a golf course does.

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  Data centers are so much more efficient with their water that they generate 50x as much tax revenue per unit of water used than golf courses in the county:

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Who is in a school predicts its results better than anything about its teaching, its teachers or its methods.

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  Once again, the composition of the student body is always more powerful a predictor than any identifiable pedagogical, school, or teacher variable.

  There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com

Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  Climate became a moral and political cause rather than a technical one, and that is what will destroy public support for it.

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  The “climate crisis” has been taught as gospel for 20 years. Now the average person can see their teachers have been preaching politics in the name of science.

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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.

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  Parents and teachers are not trustworthy judges of how intelligent a young person is.

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  Don’t base your life choices on whether parents and teachers constantly tell you that you’re “smart.” They’re not trustworthy assessors of your intelligence.

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Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.

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  Coursera

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  Coursera: actual courses from various universities, made available mostly free

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Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  VS Code

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  I use VS Code as my main code editor for both; my daily work and recording courses and videos.

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Evaluation should be taken out of the classroom and given to people whose whole job it is.

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  One solution is to separate instruction and evaluation. Let teachers be teachers and cops be cops.

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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  Podia

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  Podia - Podia is an all-in-one selling platform for solopreneurs. It's where I sell my digital products: downloads, courses, and books.

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  ScreenFlow

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  ScreenFlow - I believe the future of my business is in video + video courses. I'm in ScreenFlow almost every day. Sometimes I use it to "hijack audio" during interviews. Sometimes I use it to edit video. It's getting a lot of use.

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