What is School For?: Recent Episodes
Kyle David
I remember when I was 16 thinking "I want to learn everything there is to learn." I didn't know how impossible—yet possible—that is. Traveling around the world I realized life is the best way to learn. We don't need to set foot in a classroom. Right now were are at the beginning of the learning revolution where schools as we know them will be abandoned for something better. What will that be? No one knows, but we will explore "what is school for?" in this podcast.
Original essay here: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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Original essay here: http://paulgraham.com/useful.html
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Jordan Peterson was visiting my uncle and suggested I take his personality test. So I did. My consciousness was 3rd percentile. He had never seen a successful entrepreneur with conscientiousness below 30. What did this mean for me?
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Why do founders wear hoodies? Why do we compete for the same few coveted positions at the top of certain firma instead of making our own way? Mimetic theory explains this, partially developed by Rene Girard. This is a response to David Perell's article on Peter Thiel and religion.
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Is slaughtering animals a necessary evil or a sacred experience of being human? If you have someone else do your dirty work for you and pick up chicken breasts from a grocery store as if they grew on a tree are you missing out on a beautiful experience? Most importantly, would you teach your kids how to slaughter animals?
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Why do children want to play with the same toy? Why do young lawyers compete ferociously for the few coveted spots at the top of the law firm? Why do you want what others want? What if you stopped doing that?
Link to David Perell post: https://www.perell.com/blog/peter-thiel
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Hulk Hogan was able to bankrupt Gawker news site because he claimed that his public personality, Hulk Hogan, was not in the sex tape they published but rather it was his private persona, Terry Bollea, in the sex tape. What about you? Do you have multiple identities? Should you? Maybe not for legal reasons but just for practical reasons it might make more sense to have several personas.
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Ryan co-founded Kimono to index the internet better than Google. Kimono's growth was like a cross between a wildfire and an awkward teenager. Were they successful? What could they have done better? Listen here to find out.
This episode was so much fun it will be a part I for an upcoming part II.
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Inversion Thinking: Turn Bitcoin investing on its head in this mental model. How do you learn to lose money, in order to make more?
Survivorship Bias: The winning cryptocurrencies are currently writing history. Should we use Bitcoin's past to predict its future?
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Circle of Competence: You'd go to Warren Buffet for investing or Micheal Jordan for basketball, but who can you trust about Bitcoin?
Second Order Effects: The smart business sells shovels in a gold rush. Where do the real Bitcoin opportunities lay?
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Elon Musk used first principles to build SpaceX. How can we apply this mental model to Bitcoin?
This is an older recording from 2017 before What is School For? started.
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Jacob was running a startup while taking business school classes and quickly realized the professors didn't really know what they were talking about. And started his own class, which grew into earlystage.no in Norway. If you are interested in expanding his idea, get in touch with him. We agreed to an anti-NDA before the podcast—now that he has shared his secrets with me I've agreed to share his secrets with at least 6 other people... what an interesting concept!
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