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Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s long-time business partner, famously advocated for “inversion” as a mental model: “Invert, always invert,” he would say, borrowing from the mathematician Carl Jacobi.  His advice on avoiding catastrophe was genius and equally blunt: “Tell me where I’m going to die so I won’t go there.“ This wisdom applies perfectly to choosing […]

When I was in high school, students divided into two camps: those who “got” math and those who believed they simply weren’t “math people.”  I was one of the “got” math people who spent countless hours doing trigonometry and eventually doing AP Calculus where I was doing derivatives and all sorts of ‘fancy’ math. Deep […]

Harvard’s own dean of undergraduate education recently made a startling admission in the New York Times: “Students feel the need to distinguish themselves outside the classroom because they are essentially indistinguishable inside the classroom.“ This isn’t just about grade inflation—it’s a tacit acknowledgment that even at America’s most prestigious university, the classroom has become secondary.  […]

Imagine a drug company selling a pill that promises to make you smarter and more capable. It costs $200,000, requires four years of regular doses, and is usually bought with borrowed money.  The catch?  If it doesn’t work – if you end up no smarter or more capable – you still have to pay back […]

Teaching kids financial literacy without real money is like teaching swimming with PowerPoint slides. And we all know how that ends. We’re making the same mistake with money that we once made with abstinence-only sex education: pretending that pure knowledge will triumph over emotion, peer pressure, and real-world temptations. Spoiler alert: it won’t. But there’s […]

Sending your kid to college is a $300,000 bet that four years of lectures will prepare them for a world that cares more about what you can build than what you can recite. For a long time, it felt like the only option.  But it’s not. The School of Entrepreneuring will offer graduates $200,000 to […]

In 2011, two professors at the University of Virginia, Saras Sarasvathy and Sankaran Venkataraman, penned a research paper entitled Entrepreneurship as Method: Open Questions for an Entrepreneurial Future, and in it, they made an argument that should have been a turning point. “There exists an ‘entrepreneurial method’ analogous to the scientific method spelled out by […]

Your kid didn’t write their essay last night.  ChatGPT did. And that might be the most honest thing happening in school today. They’re copying essays from AI, running them through “humanizing” tools, and handing in work they’ve barely read. They’re having AI listen to lectures so they don’t have to. They’re sneaking AI via their […]

When I talk to parents about school, I hear three responses. I used to say this too. I defended the system that raised me.  But here’s the problem: We have no idea what we might have become. Think back to what you were curious about at 8 or 12 or 15.  What if school had […]

Recently, adults have been sounding the alarm that students are not reading books.  The underlying worry-infused premise is this: As a result, the discussion centers on how we get back to past days of reading glory.  That is the wrong frame. As it relates to reading, the toothpaste is out of the tube.  Translation: We […]