Education

Learn Probability

Dave is a quant at Paradigm. He asked: https://x.com/_Dave__White_/status/1811557747659538823 The thread is full of recs. I mentioned David Sklansky whose books…

2 years ago

The College Monopoly Is A Tiger Trap

I hate everything about this article: How Rich (or Not) Do You Have to Be to Get Into the Ivy…

3 years ago

Personal Perspective On Teaching Kids

A friend in one of the chats I’m in revived the practice of sharing wordle scores. I joined in because…

3 years ago

Kiyosaki Without The Brainworms

On Wednesday, a friend and I hosted 30 kids ranging from age 7 to 13 for Financial Literacy session I.…

3 years ago

Numeracy Injection

Some fun math stuff today all inspired by discussions I’ve seen online in the past week. Another Monty Hall Explanation…

3 years ago

On Hidden Potential

One of the Substacks I never fail to read is Range Widely by David Epstein, author of Range (my notes on his interview about the book)…

3 years ago

The Midpoint From 1 to 9 is…3?

For the past 3 years, the Berkeley Chess School has done a weekly lesson in our backyard. About 15 kids…

3 years ago

Excerpts From Grant Sanderson on The Lunar Society Podcast

Dwarkesh Patel interviews Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about: Whether advanced math requires AGI What careers should…

3 years ago

Being Stuck

This past Thursday at Back To School Night, I’m sitting in my 5th grader’s classroom chair scribbling a note on…

3 years ago

Learning To Appreciate Learning

In the past few weeks about 5-10 people have reached out to ask me for advice in the vein of…

3 years ago