Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.↗

- YouTube: youtu.be/BRcVDhOkij4 - Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0LYFIW… - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…↗

new post: what could "devrel" mean in a world with slot machines spitting out code and opinions sunilpai.dev/posts/develope…↗

A non technical friend is looking to learn how to use Gen AI and build agents. He sent me a brochure from a University offering a course but it looks abysmal. Tools are already out of date, professors have barely any real company experience. What alternatives can I send him?↗

Personal software is INSANE in the age of AI I use mine to: - Manage my course videos/material - Use AI to help me write accompanying text - Use AI to transcribe my videos WHILE RECORDING Folks who know how to build have a crazy advantage↗

Vimmaster is an in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels.↗

Who the hell is disrupting the school photo market? $20 per digital photo at my kids school Gotta be joking ...$20 for a f'n .jpg file I demand government intervention↗

i’ve been messing around with @duolingo a lot lately—not because i had some grand ambition to become fluent in another language, but because i thought it might impress someone (spoiler: she’s gone now). in my mind the most interesting thing though is what duolingo does for lang…↗

Yes! Websim is fantastic for creating tools to help you learn a language, such as this simulated tutor! This is one of our favorite examples of language learning Websims - An English teacher in Brazil made this with our generated backend feature! websim.ai/@Maynard/pergu…↗

NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B). New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M+ / year for *hosting*.↗

If you add the enterprise value of the top 8 outcomes in education, it barely amounts to the enterprise value of OnlyFans. Insane. 🤯↗

Parents, teachers - EVERY SINGLE PAGE in your children's books just became interactive. Education has changed forever. Using Claude Sonnet 3.5, I created an interactive educational tool to teach my "daughter" how we're using AI to communicate with animals. I turned a screenshot…↗

My 9 year old daughter is getting curious about business, entrepreneurship, and how the economic system works. What are your top recommendations for things I can share, read/watch with her, and activities we can do together? Grateful for the help.↗

Just finished this book - Bad Therapy by @AbigailShrier This is one of the most eye-opening books I've ever read. It's a must read for any parent, any teacher, and should be required reading for any school administrator as well. The book dives into trying to figure out why kid…↗

My current thesis as to why our company Forte Labs should enter AI education What do you think is the weakest point? Or strongest point?↗

I asked my audience: “What's the best online course you’ve ever taken?” Here are 10 of the most popular replies:↗

Something I taught 9 yo: Even if the stuff you're learning in your classes is just mindless memorization, it's still worth getting good grades, because good grades get you sorted with smarter people, and being around smart people is genuinely worthwhile.↗

Online courses are money-makers. But contrary to what you've been told, selling them isn't complicated. THREAD: An 8-step system to more online course sales. 🧵↗

We have a problem. The world of online learning is stale. Lack of community, low engagement, and no incentive for completion. THREAD: Here's what’s next for the future of online education↗

I had the chance of a lifetime to start Ad Astra School with @elonmusk for the kids of @SpaceX employees. To share the best of Ad Astra with kids around the world, I started @synthesischool with @chrismanfrank My thoughts on creating enthralling education & a brighter future 👇…↗

The world's most valuable skill: Writing effectively. But colleges charge you 120k and still do a terrible job teaching it. Instead, here are 9 writing frameworks that cost you nothing and will save you hundreds of hours:↗

We are not simply a class nor a game. We are a learning community ✨ When kids join Synthesis, they join a global ecosystem of builders that will experience a different kind of learning from the best peer network and adult mentors in the world. x.com/anafabrega11/s…↗

A meta-threads of my top threads (that will make you smarter) sprinkled in with memes (that will make you dumber)🧵↗

If you were compiling a set of topics you’d want every investment analyst to learn, what would be on the list?↗

At @synthesischool we design games that help kids navigate the complexity and chaos that eventually unfolds in our lives. Kids develop a body of thinking tools—aka mental models—that they can use outside our games to make better decisions and solve real problems. Here's how👇🏼↗

In school we learn to play the status game, the grades game, the compliance game... These games may help us “win” the game of school, but won’t get us far in real life. To succeed in life, whatever that means to us, we need to master a different game... The *METAGAME* 👇🏼🧵↗

Communities are a focal point of cohort-based courses (CBCs). You can't just have a start and end date, and expect students to finish. You NEED community. So how is community building different for CBCs vs other products? What are challenges unique to courses? Read on↗

School: - Here’s what you’ll learn - Here’s what you’ll use to learn that - Here’s how you’ll show what you learned What actually works: - What do you want to learn? - What do you need to learn that? - How will you share what you learned?↗

Unbundling the university: Education - YouTube, Masterclass Accountability - Lambda Network/Alumni - Village Global, On Deck Credential - Github for X, P2P Flirting w/ Marxism - Read the NYT Dating - Tinder Moving away from parents - Airbnb, Common Friends - Clubhouse, Twitter↗

1/ Analysis of course communities (THREAD) Community is important for premium yet scalable digital experiences. It’s one of the main selling points for premium experiences charging $1,000-$5,000/student vs on-demand courses sold for $50. But it can mean different things...↗