Toan Truong @LearningToan

If you're in gtm, this is the best account you'll find today

Nick Velkovski @nikolak47

3 days ago

We hit $18M ARR at @heyreach_io Every milestone looks great from the outside. But there's always good and bad behind it. So here's both, plus what I learned along the way. if you're building a SaaS in 2026, hopefully some of it saves you time: THE GOOD: 1. We launched Voice

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My instinct is that this is true but I'd like to see better evidence on "passenger mode" because we know student self-report on what they think they've learned is often the worst indicator of what they've actually learned. I know there was a lot of data gathered on this but it's all self-report and the criterion was some kind of affective display from what I remember. (I need to go back and read it, I know..) Many will say, well half are compliant and getting good grades, so whats the problem? But this is really about wellbeing not academic achievement. After all quiet compliance in a well-sequenced lesson and quiet compliance in a crap, joyless one look the same behaviourally. Also: does "passenger mode" predict anything downstream? What about retention at 12 months, transfer, subject choice at 16 etc, what they can still do at Uni? If the harm is distal, show me the distal data. The reality is that a lot of kids who claim to be bored are actually learning loads, (even though it doesnt feel like it) and loads of kids who say they are learning stuff like "creativity, curiosity and critical thinking" are actually learning very little other than low level social skills.

Toan Truong @LearningToan

2 months ago

Education researcher Rebecca Winthrop says two-thirds of kids are in "Passenger Mode" in school... "passenger mode is difficult to spot often for parents and sometimes teachers because many kids in passenger mode get really good grades but are just bored to tears" "They show up

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Overheard a group of high school students on the train discussing how easy their AP Calculus class is and how anything lower than a 5 is failing (to them) They were also discussing how excited they are to continue taking more advanced math classes as they went through high school Its always awesome to see students pysched about school, learning, and doing hard things

If you've got some time this weekend, check out this episode of @tferriss's podcast. I hear it's great 😀 We go into all the usual stuff about how people dramatically underestimate what kids are capable of, and the amazing things that can happen when you combine quality curriculum, motivation, and just getting out of kids' way. But the bulk of the podcast is an unscripted working session where Tim offers advice on some of Mentava's biggest marketing challenges, like "how do we sell a solution to a problem that most parents don't even realize they have?" Tim has an incredible marketing mind. I've talked to great product thinkers before, and the feeling I always get is that it's like they can see through the Matrix. It's never one silver bullet, it's thousands of little changes that add up to a step function improvement in how people experience your product. Tim is like that for marketing. He sees thousands of little details that all add up to a relentless trajectory of constant improvement. The conversation was a real shift in how I'll be thinking about marketing going forward, I hope it does the same for you!

Tim Ferriss @tferriss

2 weeks ago

NEW podcast episode is up! "Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — @NielsHoven of @MentavaInc (Tim Coaching Session)" This episode is a bit different. It’s a live, unscripted working session with a founder, and I’ve only done one other earlier this year. Niels Hoven

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Sasha Luccioni has been an AI researcher for over a decade and works at Hugging Face. A stranger emailed to say her work was going to end humanity. In her TED talk, she gave 8 things already going wrong: 1. Nobody knows what happens in twenty years

Jakub Pachocki @merettm

3 weeks ago

I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands. An Alien Mind: openai.com/index/an-alien…

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People are now using “Buy Now, Pay Later” for $1000 Coachella tickets, $10 burritos, and even $4 Starbucks drinks. No interest. No credit check. No strings attached. You've been lied to. BNPL is actually one of the sneakiest money scams ever built... Let me explain: (THREAD)🧵

Pavel Durov says he was put in an experimental Soviet school that tried to overwhelm a teenage brain on purpose, and the results was mind boggling... "At the age of 11, I got the opportunity to enter an experimental school in St. Petersburg" "You would have four foreign languages at least including Latin, English, French, German. In addition, you can get ancient Greek. You would have classes like biochemistry or psychoanalysis or evolutionary psychology." "Since it was an experimental class, it wasn't possible to become a straight A student to be excellent in all the subject. It was like considered crazy to even try." "You're just pushing the limits of the human mind, four languages in parallel, math, evolutionary psychology, just overwhelming the mind and see what happens." If you're new here, follow @LearningToan for the sharpest lessons from the world's best minds. — Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, on Lex Fridman's ( @lexfridman ) Lex Fridman Podcast

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Elon Musk says the smartest engineers make one costly mistake: They perfect things that should not exist. To avoid it, he runs the same 5-step algorithm on every problem, always in this order. 1/ Question every requirement Even from smart people, or you get a perfect answer to the wrong question. 2/ Try to delete the part or step entirely If you are not forced to add back 10% of what you cut, you did not cut enough. 3/ Only now optimize what is left 4/ Speed it up 5/ Automate it He learned it the hard way, automating and speeding up things he later had to delete. Never optimize, speed up, or automate something you should have deleted first. — Elon Musk (.@elonmusk)

GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX

a month ago

Elon Musk says the AI boom hits a WALL this year when we run out of power to run the chips. He says the whole industry is about to learn a hard lesson in hardware. Chip output is exploding, but electricity is nearly flat everywhere outside China. So the two lines cross this

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Elon Musk says the AI boom hits a WALL this year when we run out of power to run the chips. He says the whole industry is about to learn a hard lesson in hardware. Chip output is exploding, but electricity is nearly flat everywhere outside China. So the two lines cross this year. He says by the end of the year, we will be making more AI chips than we can actually turn on. Millions of them pile up with nowhere to plug in. In his words, the bottleneck for the next year is not chips, it is raw power. Whoever can turn on the most chips fastest wins the race. In the end, the AI race comes down to one thing: Raw electricity. — Elon Musk (.@elonmusk) on Dwarkesh Patel's (.@dwarkesh_sp) podcast

GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX

a month ago

Peter Diamandis says we'll speedrun every science fiction movie ever written in the next decade. Moon bases, nuclear plants on the moon, 500,000 data center satellites in orbit: 8 predictions he made: 1) Longevity escape velocity arrives in 2033

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"Game theory is the most powerful decision-making framework in history. From Sun Tzu & Genghis Khan to John F. Kennedy, it was used to win wars, forge empires and conquer the world."

Tim Denning @Tim_Denning

a month ago

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Jensen Huang says the first AI supercomputer he ever built had exactly one customer on earth: Elon Musk. Back in 2016, he had just created a machine called the DGX1. It cost $300,000 dollars. He announced it on stage, and the room went completely silent since nobody understood it, so nobody wanted to buy it. Since Elon knew him because Nvidia had built the first self-driving computer for the Tesla Model S, Elon bought & tried it. Elon said he had a small company that could use it. Jensen boxed one up himself and drove it to San Francisco. He carried it up to a room full of researchers. That tiny company turned out to be OpenAI. The machine nobody wanted went on to launch the AI revolution. — Jensen Huang (.@JensenHuang)

GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX

a month ago

Elon Musk says the AI boom hits a WALL this year when we run out of power to run the chips. He says the whole industry is about to learn a hard lesson in hardware. Chip output is exploding, but electricity is nearly flat everywhere outside China. So the two lines cross this

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Bill Ackman says almost all the money Warren Buffett ever made came from one business nobody copied. Ackman runs a $25 billion fund and is copying it right now. Here's the reason it's still open to you: 1) A burger chain owned a coffee chain worth more than itself

Elon Musk says one heat shield problem could kill Starship's reusability for years. Starship is the most complicated machine humans have ever built. The hardest part isn't the engines. It isn't the steel. It isn't even the explosion margin on liftoff. Musk named the one remaining bottleneck. "It's having the heat shield be reusable. No one's ever made a reusable orbital heat shield." The shield does two impossible jobs. "It's gotta make it through the ascent phase without shucking a bunch of tiles, and then it's gotta come back in and also not lose a bunch of tiles or overheat the main airframe." 40,000 tiles per ship. Musk reframed the consumable problem through brake pads: "Your brake pads in your car are also consumable, but they last a very long time." The shield must consume slowly. It must not require inspection between launches. Musk on the current state: "We have brought the ship back and had it do a soft landing in the ocean. But it lost a lot of tiles." A soft landing is not reusability. The bar is daily launches. One ship. Many flights. Musk, on the gap that's left: "You can't do this laborious inspection of 40,000 tiles type of thing." The first reusable heat shield in history is the last gate to Mars. — Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX

a month ago

Elon Musk says the AI boom hits a WALL this year when we run out of power to run the chips. He says the whole industry is about to learn a hard lesson in hardware. Chip output is exploding, but electricity is nearly flat everywhere outside China. So the two lines cross this

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Tutoring began TODAY It was so fun seeing the kids giddy while doing Math. One principal teared up seeing them so happy and engaged We have a very tall hill to climb, but today we took our first steps.

Ben Somers @ben_m_somers

3 months ago

I'm excited to announce the most ambitious recreation of Bloom's 2Sigma study of the last 40 years. It's funded by @reedhastings and staffed by a team of 20 of the best educators in this country. Our education team's goal is to show the largest academic gains in one year ever

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This mathematician built the AI company that started the image-generation boom, Stability AI. On André Duqum's podcast, he shared 8 bold predictions on how AI changes humanity: 1) Desk jobs will be replaced by it in 1,000 days

In 2021, while I was still at university and building Howitzer (a reddit outreach tool), I raised money from investors. It was the biggest investment that ever happened in Macedonia - $500k. I took money from one VC fund (DayOneCapital), and 2 angels who believed in my idea. I was a 22 year old college student. I blew their money a year after, as Howitzer didn’t work. Now, nearly 5 years after that, I returned their money. @heyreach_io became a huge, seriously profitable company, and it was a time to pay back what I owned. If these guys didn’t believe in me back in the days, I wouldn’t be here.

A stuck nervous system is the real reason your chest is still tight. It speeds your heart, shunts blood to your muscles, and leaves you agitated. Here are 8 ways Stanford's Andrew Huberman says to switch it off: 1. Make your exhale longer than your inhale

School spent 18 years teaching you a reflex that destroys real conversations. Conor Neill puts it plainly: "You finish your pitch and the customer says, 'Your product is too expensive!' You arrive home a few minutes late, your partner says, 'You are always late.' There's a dirty plate left on the table 'You never wash the dishes.' What do you say in this moment?" Here's the trap Neill identifies: "Most of you, me included, went through 14 years of school where we were taught one way to respond to questions. Teacher asks, 'How do you spell cats?' Student: 'C-A-T.' Teacher asks, 'What is osmosis?' Student explains in detail. For 14 years, you've been taught to give answers to questions. If you went to university, you probably had another 3 or 4 years of giving answers to questions." And that conditioning costs you: "In real life in persuasion, in getting to what the other person is really about, what their needs really are, the worst thing you can do is give an answer to a question." Watch what happens when you answer: "If someone says, 'Your product is too expensive,' and you say, 'No it's not! It's only €1,000'; you've lost every chance to understand what else is behind their reasoning. If you get home and your partner says, 'You're always late!' and you say, 'No, no, no, Tuesday I was definitely here on time', you're gonna have a crap weekend." Why does the brain default to this? "When your partner says, 'You're always late,' emotion goes up. And what happens? The thinking part disconnects. The way to make someone stupider is to insult them, object to them, tell them they are wrong. When you're asked a question, there's an emotional reaction, and the higher emotion goes, the lower thinking goes." And it won't fix itself without work: "If you don't practice this response, you're not going to be able to do it in the moment. If you don't practice repeatedly how you'll respond to 'You're always late,' 'You never wash the dishes,' 'Your product is too expensive,' 'Your competitor is better,' 'You failed us 3 years ago,' 'I don't trust your company', you're not going to be able to do it in the heat of the moment." The alternative Neill teaches: "When you are asked a question or given an objection, I want you to say: 'I understand.' And repeat in your words what they're saying. Then give an open question back." In practice: "'Your product is too expensive!' → 'I understand that money is an important factor for you. What other criteria will be used in making this decision?'" He calls this Conversation Aikido: "Martial arts are about using the energy and force of the opponent against them. In Judo, if someone punches you, you pull their arm and allow the energy to keep flowing. In Aikido, the concept is you go toward the punch. You go toward the energy. If someone punches you, if someone asks you a question, if someone objects, the Aikido method is to go toward them and see the world from their view." For the harder personal moments: "'You're always late!' → 'I understand you feel frustrated.' 'I understand you feel let down.' You'll have to work on this quite a few times over the next 10 years to find the set of words that captures what the other person feels, what's behind it. Then ask: 'What can we do now?' 'What happened during the day?' 'What would you like to talk about?'" By defending, you go blind: "When a client says 'You're too expensive' and you say 'No, we're not!' you learn nothing about who else they're considering, what other criteria are important, what process they've gone through, who else is involved in the decision." Neill's guarantee: "By giving the answer, we shut down the possibility of hearing what's really going on in the other person's mind. But if you say 'I understand,' accept the energy coming from the other person, and give back an open question, I guarantee that if you do it 4 times, the answer to your 4th open question begins to be the real underlying need, issue, or interest of the person you're listening to."

GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX

2 months ago

Kevin O'Leary says Steve Jobs had one obsession most CEOs never learn "There's a concept that he understood that very few people focused on back then in the early '90s of signal-to-noise ratio" "His vision of signal was the top three to five things you have to get done in the

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