An Open Rant to Those Who Worry Homeschooling Doesn’t Properly Socialize...
But aren’t you worried they won’t be properly socialized? This was a question a good friend of mine posed to me during a recent conversation when I admitted that I would want my (yet hypothetical)...
View ArticleNo, Schools Don’t Save Kids From Abuse
This was an acquaintance’s response after I told her my opinion that schools simply aren’t failing, but that they are designed to wrench differentiation and individualization out of students: Well,...
View ArticleHow to Change the World, Starting Now
This is based on my talk I gave on Saturday at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH at the Ohio Students For Liberty Regional Conference. You can find the slides here. I want to start off by...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: You Don’t Need Mountains of Debt and a Worthless Degree
I joined Hector Avellaneda on the New Class Rising podcast to talk about a tricky situation that way too many young people today face: going to college because they want to get a job, only to find that...
View ArticleSchool is Creating a Generation of Unhappy People
It’s said that pain isn’t the opposite of happiness — boredom is. With this premise in mind, is it any surprise that children, adolescents, and young adults today are so unhappy? Is it any surprise...
View ArticleIt’s Time We Admit the Degree is Speculation, Not Investment
One of the most popular tropes among career advisors, guidance counselors, school officials, and college recruiters today is that going to college is an investment. As more and more options for work...
View ArticleErnst & Young Doesn’t Require Degrees — Why Do You?
This post was originally published at LinkedIn on December 8, 2015. Earlier this year, Ernst and Young, one of the biggest professional services firms in the world, dropped a bombshell that they would...
View ArticleThese Are the 5 Traits That Drive Success
This was originally published at the Praxis blog as “The Extraordinary: 5 Traits of the Best Praxis Applicants.” The traits that I have observed make the best Praxis applicants also are the traits...
View ArticleNo, You Don’t Need a Degree to Get Your Foot Through the Door
This post originally appeared on Medium on December 1. The sheer number of young people wasting away in classrooms today because they think they have to be there is staggering. Fed by movies and...
View ArticleDegree Inflation Is Out of Control — Here’s How to Fix That
I had coffee with a friend of mine the other day who recently graduated from college. After the parties and the Facebook posts from aunts and uncles saying, “I’m so proud of you, congratulations!!!” he...
View ArticleShould I Go to College if I Want to Be an Entrepreneur?
This was originally posted on Quora in response to a question by the same title. Most people are going to tell you yes, it will be beneficial to do so even if you want to be an entrepreneur. I think...
View ArticleInterview: Let’s Create Something Better than the University
I had an opportunity to sit down with the guys from the Borderless Podcast recently to discuss higher education and creating a viable alternative to the university. We talked about my decision to leave...
View ArticleWhy Are There So Few Young Entrepreneurs?
There’s a popular trope right now that a ton of young people are founders and entrepreneurs. Thanks to a handful of young founders with a disproportionate impact (ala Mark Zuckerberg) and cultural...
View ArticleI’m Giving Out a Scholarship
Traditional roles in companies are dying. The successful of the next 50 years are going to be those who are dynamic enough and entrepreneurial enough to constantly switch roles, learn new skills, and...
View ArticleYour High School Friendships Died Out? Rejoice!
I recently had an opportunity to meet up with a friend of mine from high school. He actually went to a different school, but we shared similar values and traveled in similar extracurricular circles, so...
View ArticleCan We Blame Parents for Schooling?
One of the biggest dangers of a fully-schooled society is that schooling becomes the status quo. When children come of age, most parents just put their kids in school because it is just what everybody...
View ArticleBreaking School’s Stranglehold on Research
Y Combinator announced last month that they’d be launching a study on a Universal Basic Income — pushing the Silicon Valley-based group of investors and entrepreneurs into space traditionally guarded...
View ArticleI’m Releasing a Book
I’ve been excitedly working on a new project over the past few weeks and finally feel like it has come far enough to announce. After compiling older writings and drafting some new contributions, I’m...
View ArticleFragility, Antifragility, and Displacement by Our Robot Workforce
I recently gave a number of talks and conversations in the Phoenix area on the need for young people to think entrepreneurially about their careers. The idea of a singular “career” is dying, if not...
View ArticleHow School Decreases Your Optionality
“Education is the great equalizer,” or so the story goes. Discussions by pundits and politicians about opportunity and helping individuals unleash new opportunity for themselves and their families...
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