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by alid 14y ago
Nice deck man! Education's ripe for the doing - today, we’re preparing our kids for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technology that hasn’t been invented, to solve problems we can’t yet imagine.
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by alid 14y ago
Thanks man! Keep us posted on the side-project, awesome space to be in. If you're on Twitter, I'm @alidrennan.
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by alid 14y ago
My suggestion is to look at everything through the lens of "how can I make this better?"...from that angle, suddenly the world starts looking like one, massive, un-tapped opportunity. When you hit on something you're passionate about do a d
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by alid 14y ago
That's a shame, I totes said smarter things after that! ;) I'm new here, so will try & speak less colloquially if that's the preferred tone.
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by alid 14y ago
Thanks for posting this! I look forward to reading Bill's full review of Academically Adrift - higher education is ripe for the disrupt.
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by alid 14y ago
This is cool! It reminds me of the TED talk 'Will our kids be a different species?'. We are totes getting smarter - kids have a grasp of concepts such as metacognitive thinking at a much younger age, and their frame of reference is so much
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by alid 14y ago
I like to think PR and costs weren't the only drivers of this...Steve Jobs was quite the hippie capitalist, so I like to think he instigated a move into this space :)
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by alid 14y ago
Rather than looking at traditional 'smarts', I would look at personality factors to assess if someone of college age should drop out - their levels of entrepreneurism, emotional intelligence, communication and persuasion skills, resilience,
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by alid 14y ago
I'm not American, so am more influenced by what I've seen in Australia and my travels around South-East Asia. There are many urban areas that are not surrounded by arable land, or the arable land they have is dedicated to growing cash crops
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by alid 14y ago
Ha! That's awesome! It's seriously the future of food security for urban areas. I'm dreaming up low-rise & high-rise apartment developments where there's dedicated floors of aquaponics, securing food for those people in the building. Ro
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by alid 14y ago
Thanks man! I'll give it a try. Basically I'm looking for one platform that integrates and automates website/marketing/product/revenue/engagement metrics...so I can focus more energy on the things that I love ;) (brand, customer acquisition
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by alid 14y ago
I take a far more optimistic stance. Yes technology is part of the problem - we now receive five times as much information every day than we did in 1986, & our brains are exposed daily to more information than a laptop can handle. Yet t
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by alid 14y ago
To live on an organic permaculture farm and build a scalable aquaponics business. Actually, build an eco village while I'm at it. Such a hippie capitalist ;)