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by bradwschiller 3y ago
This is false. AP classes are meant to be college-level classes. The goals of these classes is to earn scores that yield college credits. The tests exist to provide some form of standardization around understanding a student's performa
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by bradwschiller 3y ago
Grade inflation is an obvious problem. It does a disservice to students, making them believe they are exceptional at something they are actually mediocre at. Some rants related to this and how awful grade inflation is for students and the w
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by bradwschiller 4y ago
Selling shares in people isn't a new idea. Upstart started by doing this exact same thing in 2012 (they pivoted to personal lending and were very successful). But Upstart couldn't make the investing in people marketplace work. The
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by bradwschiller 5y ago
Best of the best is very subjective. Once you're over the academic bar of being able to do the work, other factors are far more important for success in college and life. Essentially, there's a bar for intellectual horsepower – wh
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by bradwschiller 5y ago
It's clear the SAT/ACT has predictive power for highly-selective colleges, such as MIT. And therefore, they are valuable for these colleges – especially for the Math scores as MIT suggests. The value of SAT/ACT scores decreas
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by bradwschiller 6y ago
I'd test out some of your more thoughtful and detail-oriented friends. You may find one or two who you feel are adding value and pushing your work forward. If you're going to pay for someone, it's very difficult to find a goo
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by bradwschiller 6y ago
The philosophy of Deliberate Practice applies very well to writing. There are some online writing courses you can take (e.g., David Perrell has one), but there's a lot you can do on your own (and with the help of some friends). Here ar
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by bradwschiller 6y ago
There's not much out there on the specifics of Amazon's approach to writing, but there are bits and pieces around. Jeff Bezos's 2017 shareholder letter highlights some of his thinking around 6-page narratives: https:/&#
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by bradwschiller 6y ago
Hey! Thanks for the comment and going to the site (Prompt.com). We're focused on students for now, but we will be launching supports for professionals in the future. We're almost all B2B sales, which is why you found it harder to
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by bradwschiller 6y ago
Agreed that understanding the business is critical. Writing is one of the best ways for someone to develop a better understanding of the business - e.g., what metric are we tracking and why? Overall, I'm not saying that there aren&#x27
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by bradwschiller 6y ago
I've given significant thought to the writing problem, and I firmly believe the lack of writing is dramatically slowing the pace of innovation in the world. Writing is really Amazon's superpower. It's why they get big things
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by bradwschiller 10y ago
I think what's missing here is that the product is sticky for a number of people and spending on user acquisition costs are likely to go down. Each company essentially takes a 10% rake on every game and I'd imagine these companies
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by bradwschiller 11y ago
One of the big issues with the credit card business is fraud. Fraud is around 1% of all credit card transactions. Fraud tends to be higher on online payments where the "card not present" rate that merchants pay is higher than the
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by bradwschiller 11y ago
Oscar is great in the NYC / NJ area ( https://www.hioscar.com/ ). They do a good job of lveraging technology and are less confusing than other insurance companies. They even have a program with Misfit where you get $1 pe
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Debunking Amazon Prime Air Drones(bradschiller.blogspot.com)
5 points by bradwschiller 13y ago|0 comments
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Driverless Cars, an Inevitability(bradschiller.blogspot.com)
2 points by bradwschiller 13y ago|0 comments
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Hardware hacker needed for core role at drone start-up
1 points by bradwschiller 14y ago
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Operations Hacker Wanted at Drone Startup
1 points by bradwschiller 14y ago