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When seated at a table with people you don't know, ask "what are you interested in?" or "what have you been thinking about lately?" instead of "what do you do?".

Avneesh Kumar
Avneesh Kumar@avneeshJun 25 2026

When seated at a table with people you don't know, ask "what are you interested in?" or "what have you been thinking about lately?" instead of "what do you do?".

(Surprisingly often you get a look of utter confusion, followed by fifteen seconds of hemming and hawing, and then a version of "man, i really need to take some time off".)

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Avneesh is the founder of Permissionless Academy, a platform for young adults to build leverage using AI.

He spent a decade inside the K-12 system building Schoolze (now Schoolze Labs) before concluding that meaningful education reforms have to come from outside it. Today he runs six AI-native and legacy products solo, with agents at the core and no traditional team!

He writes about education, agency, and building leverage in the age of AI!

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