I Join Tom Woods to Discuss The End of School
I had the pleasure of joining Tom Woods on his popular podcast on Tuesday to discuss my forthcoming compilation book, The End of School. We discuss deschooling, the role of entrepreneurship in...
View ArticleSome Quick Thoughts on School and Envy
In his book Envy, Helmut Schoeck provides an anthropological and sociological analysis of the role of envy in human society — mostly about how envy is one of the primary drivers of discontent, chaos,...
View ArticleI Join Rush to Reason in Colorado
I joined Rush to Reason on AM 560 KLZ in Colorado to discuss The End of School, the effect schooling has on entrepreneurship, and a little about how we try to address this with Praxis. The interview...
View ArticlePaul Graham on Making Pittsburgh the Next Silicon Valley
These are my notes from Paul Graham’s talk on Saturday, April 9, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh. Graham is a graduate of Gateway High School in Pittsburgh, PA and left the region after graduating...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts on the Prevalence of High Caliber Young People in Schools
I’ve been emailing back and forth with a few students who showed up to a talk I did the other day on the practical steps they can take to build social capital and launch an enterprise. Some common...
View ArticleOn the Tyranny of Optionality
Our obsession with “keeping doors open” ends up hurting us. Sometimes you have to make hard choices — and you are better set to make these decisions yourself than for life to make them for you. There’s...
View ArticleA New Approach to Content (Audio)
The other morning, I opened up my blog to record some monologues of articles I have written. After a few attempts, I realized that they weren’t best-made for recording. Instead, I decided to do a...
View ArticleGet That Schools Are Broken? Don’t Send Your Kids to Them
Today’s audio blog covers some thoughts on my friends reacting positively to this article. If you think schools are broken, don’t mindlessly send young humans through them when you have control over...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts on the Paradox of School & the Family
I was giving a talk at Floria Gulf Coast University the other night near Fort Myers when I noticed a flyer on the door of the lecture hall. The sign (I wish I had gotten a picture now) read: “PARENT...
View Article“Parent-Free Zones” Are Terrifying
Today’s audio blog is an expansion on the post below. Enjoy. Please feel free to leave feedback on this format either on Soundcloud or by emailing me. I’m still experimenting with audio approaches....
View ArticleYou Don’t Hate Mondays or Capitalism – You Just Hate Your Job
Today’s audio blog is in reaction to a sentiment I’ve seen some friends share – “You don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism.” My response is simple: you don’t hate either of these, you hate your job....
View ArticleTeachers Aren’t the Problem — Or the Solution
Today’s recording focuses on why good teachers can’t fix “broken” schools — and why bad teachers aren’t the problem with schools. The opening excerpt is from the School Sucks Project, here. Comments,...
View ArticleGet my Foreword to John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down
I couldn’t be more excited to publicly announce that I had the honor of writing the foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition of John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory...
View ArticleLearn More, Go to School Less
Originally, I was going to talk about optionality and education, but most of the discussion focused on the example of going to medical school as a way of planning way too far into the future and...
View ArticleDoers 003 — Mathew Pregasen on Learning to Code, Starting Companies as a...
Mathew Pregasen is the cofounder of Parsegon (https://www.parsegon.com), an ed-tech company that can translate typed language into symbols in live-time, and a student at Columbia University. Mathew and...
View ArticleHow School Undermines the Self-Efficacy of Recent Grads
Self-efficacy is one of the core concepts in developing a healthy sense of self-esteem. At its basic level, it is a competence and sense of competence about one’s ability to handle life and to navigate...
View ArticleDoers 013 – Michael Gibson & Danielle Strachman on Launching a Venture...
Michael Gibson is a philosopher who left academia to write about technology and Danielle Strachman is an educator who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to help young people drop out of college. And...
View ArticleNavigating the Labyrinth of Life with Ambition Mapping
One of my deepest fears is waking up one day and living a life that I did not create. I’ve met far too many people — young and old — who realize they are living a life that they fell into rather than...
View ArticleDoers 013 – Michael Gibson & Danielle Strachman on Launching a Venture...
Michael Gibson is a philosopher who left academia to write about technology and Danielle Strachman is an educator who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to help young people drop out of college. And...
View ArticleNavigating the Labyrinth of Life with Ambition Mapping
One of my deepest fears is waking up one day and living a life that I did not create. I’ve met far too many people — young and old — who realize they are living a life that they fell into rather than...
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