andrew (in CS teacher mode) 🌹
@__drewface
GenZ Dad. Building trajectory-altering institutions in NYC. University, Bootcamp, Coworking Space. let's do our best work ❤️ https://fractalnyc.com/university
An update on Fractal Tech Bootcamp, and a request for help 🙏🏼 I started an AI engineering accelerator (a “bootcamp”) about 1 year ago, because my friends and I could not find enough good AI talent to hire, and I’m obsessed with educational reform. The bootcamp was an…
"look everywhere in the possibility space except your default" and at a higher-level, get friends who will look for you, and then point it out to you
This tweet, but “opposite” is too simple. It’s more like look everywhere in the possibility space except your default. If you aren’t happy why are you buying your psychology’s default ideas about what will make you happy? x.com/nosilverv/stat…
i would like to caveat this by saying that the debt crisis is not, in fact, "comically easy to solve" -- and my armchair national financial strategy is probably not a winning political solution. however i still am a bit appalled by the wealth transfer
guys the american debt crisis is comically easy to solve. it is not about federal waste. the boomers who are (and I cannot stress this enough) the wealthiest group of Americans in history are being given $2.13 Trillion of TAXPAYER MONEY annually the deficit is only $1.93T
finally ready to launch my next community organizing project: The Borg NYC "The Borg" is a radical project to create a culture of playful experimentation, belonging, love, and total social conformity at the largest possible scale. Our aim is to re-home and re-parent, at scale.
econ: "hey guys, I discovered that we can predict what the greedy profit-maximizing ppl are going to do, and use their behavior to maximize deep benefit to everyone!! We just need to understand it and leverage it." populist: "it sounds like you support greed" 🤦♂️
incredibly important to understand. if you want to debunk modern economic theory, you cannot debunk it by saying "corporations are greedy" -- modern economic theory already predict firms as maximally greedy; literally profit-maximizing. theory says they still benefit us!
not me casually teaching people to love programming computers on the internet 🙈 😳 "the inspiration is so exciting and empowering" i could not agree more!
One interesting question I have about my engineering accelerator is how to describe the pedagogy. we rely primarily on: immersion, intensity, and direct mentorship, plus radical honesty But that makes it sound almost magical. In reality, the outcomes are accomplished mostly…
you can just seriously ask for what you want from the world
I am single and want a husband+kids. So it is hard to plan my future. I want to build an ambitious unusual life, but the details are completely contingent on my husband. But here is what what I know I want: My kids will not go to school. We'll caravan the Silk Road and learn…