Episode 4 - Part 3
In part three of today’s episode of the Gradient Proof Podcast, Roy Peer and Steven W Sorensen continue to discuss the 2018 book, The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan.
In this Episode:
[0:18] Entrepreneurship in Education
[1:15] Success and Learning: Learning How to Learn
[5:00] State Funding of Entrepreneurship
[07:17] Why Minimum Wage is better for Big Business and Bad for Small Businesses
[10:24] Student Loans vs Entrepreneurship Loans
[12:00] Enormous College Endowments
[15:11] Higher Paying Jobs & Cost of Living & Student Loans
[19:00] Is Any Degree Still Better Than A Degree?
[23:40] AI and The Need to Adapt
[25:20] Professional Fate vs Professional Desire
Bios
Roy Peer is an architect turned entrepreneur. After working for award-winning architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in New York City, he went on to start a virtual reality company, which later sold to a notable Hollywood director in 2018. Peer is the founder of PeerBasics, a data-driven products company that analyzes e-commerce sales data to drive its product launch decisions in multiple categories with multiple factory partners in Asia. Peer is the author of Simulation Arcade, a sci-fi novel that paints a possible future world when AI and brain chips are commonplace and details the way humanity meets its AI cocoon moment, and how to stop it.
Steven W Sorensen is the director of corporate finance at droppGroup / droppLabs, an AI / ML web3 video & mixed reality shopatainment marketplace and co-founder & COO of Fotin Media. Steven calls NYC home, lived in China for 7 years, and has an MA and M.Phil in English from The University of Hong Kong. He likes jazz piano and good whiskey.
Mentions:
Purchase: The Case Against Education https://www.amazon.ca/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652
Learn more about Bryan Caplan http://www.bcaplan.com/
Referenced sites: Small Business Administration https://www.sba.gov/
NYU Grossman School of Medicine https://med.nyu.edu/
Keywords: #Entrepreneurship #Education #Learning #AI #StudentLoans
Whiskey:
Michter’s Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Rye https://michters.com/us1-kentucky-straight-rye/
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Other Projects:
Buy Simulation Arcade in Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QF3YPV4
Simulation Arcade Pre-Release NFT (comes with author-signed copy)
https://opensea.io/collection/author-release
Fotin Media https://fotinmedia.com/
droppLabs.io https://dropplabs.io/
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