Brennan's Conversations

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• Saurav: https://twitter.com/sauravpahadia

Things & people mentioned

1. Ben Laufer, who lies about having blog posts for people to give feedback on to force himself to actually write https://twitter.com/benjlaufer/status/1356025529879515139 
2. the Amazon Affiliate Program, which I use for money and analytics when I link to products in these descriptions https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
3. "The Founder,&qu...

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• Saurav: https://twitter.com/sauravpahadia
• Will: https://vimeo.com/willhoppin

Things mentioned:

1. FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc
2. Future Engineers Camp, a startup Saurav made https://futureengineerscamp.com
3. the iPad Pro, which I used for high school & sold many of https://amzn.to/3diIt3A
4. Teacherly, another startup Saurav made https://teacher.ly
5. Stripe, a fantastic pa...

Technological progress as along a tech tree; cheap energy as the next frontier; labor isn’t free; don’t optimize things non-mission-critical things that you can outsource; there’s no such thing as infinite resources; everything is an optimization problem; people can’t perceive reality, just your marketing of it; fundraising is a marketing problem; delegation is not a magic wand; leadership is marketing and decision making; startups...

Publishing raw conversations for integrity; dependence → independence → interdependence; unifying people with ambitious goals; "build the schools of 2050"; explaining the road to Damascus; Davide's reflections on high school; overcoming introversion by focusing on others; nobody cares about your awkward moments; education as more urgent than longevity; improving education as a leverage play; education as an intractab...