Essays
For a century the college degree was the right bet. Today, it's a $200,000 wager on a world that no longer exists.
Nine months ago I wrote The Proof of Work Protocol (Part 1). The shift I was predicting is no longer coming — it's here. Time for some actionables. In March 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay called "Undergraduation." His advice to smart undergrads was simple and radical: stop worr...more
We are moving from a world of "learning to build" to a world of "building to learn."
For a century, education has been treated like a separate phase of life. We were told that we had to spend our first twenty years in a "waiting room," accumulating facts and skills just in case we might need them later. This is what I call Intellectual Debt. You borrow time from...more