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Some entrepreneurs would rather keep searching for a solution than implement one somebody else already built.
The public mission: “We want to solve this problem.”
The private conditions: “With our idea. Under our brand. With us recognized as the visionaries.”
An existing solution can satisfy the mission while threatening every private ambition.
Research provides respectable cover.
“We need to explore further.”
“We’re developing our own approach.”
“More innovation is needed.”
Sometimes, that’s justified. Sometimes, it preserves the hope of becoming the person who owns the answer.
Meanwhile, the people experiencing the problem keep waiting.
They don’t need another founder’s origin story. They need an effective solution, delivered reliably.
When someone claims the mission comes first, ask:
“Would you support an effective existing solution even if someone else got the credit and owned the upside?”
Virtu Prep has already answered the question about how to effectively scale high quality education for everyone.
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Very interesting to read, but every point is completely irrelevant:
1. We are research-based, use A/B testing, etc. We incorporate learning science while also running our own testing to see what actually works in real time.
2. Being for-profit is a strength. Our incentive is to serve our families as best as possible, lest they turn elsewhere. I spent 45 minutes on a call yesterday with a parent who told me Recess wasn't working for them, and we came up with 5 different solutions on how to help them. One solution is that we're committing loads of engineering resources just to help this one kid. Capitalism works for a reason.
3. We are extremely affordable because of School Choice policies. A shocking number of our families are below the poverty line. They can afford an $18,000/yr private school education because the government funds it. We are far more accessible than any "cheap alternative" some company or ig non-profit comes up with because, for our families, we are literally free.
I know I'm a little cringey in how bullish I am on what we're doing, but I have the facts to back my cringe up.
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I’ve called it an endogenocide (from within).
The deficiency of the conversation on genocide thus far has been that they presuppose that the genocide must be the ultimate goal of the actor, rather than a means to another end.
The goal of the leadership of Gaza was to have a genocide they can accuse Israel of, all along, and have done everything they can to manufacture one:
teapaw.org/robertfrost/status/194…
Tragic. Gazan suffering is intentional tactic used as a weapon by Hamas to make the rest of the world redirect the hatred and shame it should feel for Hamas Islamist Jihad
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I see this everywhere in Ed Tech: building faster horse-carriages when cars exist and the world needs airplanes
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Almost every edtech company sells to schools. We just... became one. And honestly I think it's the only way this works
Think about what it takes to sell software to a school. A district has to buy it. Teachers have to find time to learn it (they don't have time). Kids have to actually open it. Any one of those can kill a great idea, and a lot of brilliant tools died just because they didn't fit into a 45 minute period
You also inherit the district's incentives, which are mostly "is this easy to manage and does anyone complain." Whether kids learned more is kind of a footnote
When you ARE the school, you get to design the day around the tool and the tool around the day. If something isn't working for kids we don't file a feature request with ourselves lol, we just fix it
It's way harder! We hire tutors, talk to parents all day, handle enrollment, worry about every single kid's Tuesday. But I don't know another way to find out what school looks like when you're allowed to change everything at once
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Ryan @ryanjdaniels is super impressive all-signal, no-noise Lux family founder of @crosbylegal
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In the 1940s a researcher named Paul Mort found that a good idea takes about 50 years to spread through American schools. Kindergarten took roughly half a century
Quick, widespread adoption of novel ideas is a myth. But you can sidestep that if you just open your own school
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I’ve called it an endogenocide (from within).
The deficiency of the conversation on genocide thus far has been that they presuppose that the genocide must be the ultimate goal of the actor, rather than a means to another end.
The goal of the leadership of Gaza was to have a genocide they can accuse Israel of, all along, and have done everything they can to manufacture one:
teapaw.org/frostfrostnyc/status/1…
Why they NEED it to be a genocide.
From a live event at Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue, Encino, California. With Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz and Reverend Drew Sams, Senior Pastor of Bel Air Church.
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Robert Frost ✡︎ retweeted
Antisemitism. Now with a fitness tracker.
A Nov. 8 Philadelphia bike protest targets six Jewish-owned eateries. Its flyer: “These Zionist establishments must go!”
Teachers: this is why history needs more than a worksheet.
inquirer.com/news/philadelph…
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When they say “AIPAC,” they don’t mean Israel, they mean Jews.
Do you think Bibi Netanyahu or anyone in Israel’s govt has spent even a minute thinking about Chicago public schools in the past 50 years?
The left has imported Third World conspiracism that blames the Jews for all social ills—including failing public schools in Chicago that the left has controlled for decades.
It’s just like the corrupt Arab govts that say “don’t blame us for all your misery, it’s the Jews’ fault!”
It’s a psy-op for those in power to escape accountability. America has been practically immune to this illness for 250 years, which is why America has thrived. Succumb to it, and we’ll end up like the Third World—as Europe is discovering.
Robert Frost ✡︎ retweeted
This guy running to be president of Chicago Public Schools ($380K Salary) is blaming the decline of their school system on AIPAC... He literally works for the Union that has gutted Chicago kids education to pay people like himself.
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literally what i am studying. thank you for sharing. really a great read.
a lot of this is really scary. also fascinating:
People stop asking: "Is it true?"
And start asking: "Do respectable people believe it?"
No free society can survive if its citizens lose the ability to reason independently.
Robert Frost ✡︎ retweeted
I'm an American Jew
I believe that uncontrolled immigration to the West is one of the biggest issues that we face
I simultaneously believe that skilled, controlled immigration is one of the most positive things for the West (Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin and Elon Musk etc)
We've lost nuance on this point
Moreover, I believe that Jews have been seen as being only on one side of this issue -- people like George Soros dominate the conversation
Thus, I think it's healthy that Jews are starting to speak up here
“We, the Jews of Israel, have a great problem with progressive Jews abroad promoting immigration.
And we should start calling them out before the anti-Semites do, because we have lost the left... but we are also losing the right.”
— @GadiTaub1 at NatCon Jerusalem.