For those who are interested in working in EdTech, I need to be honest with you about what you're signing up for. You probably shouldn't apply. EdTech's graveyard is full of brilliant engineers. AltSchool raised $200M and closed. Knewton raised $180M and sold for scraps. 2,148 edtech startups in India shut down in the past five years. They didn't fail because of a lack of technical skill. They failed from mission drift. Here's what working in edtech actually means: You're not building software. You're building a theory of how children learn. - @MitchForest When you're 2 months into the same feature, and it still doesn't work, you won't have the dopamine hits of shipping fast. You'll need something deeper. For the engineers who build learning apps for @AlphaSchoolATX, they are REQUIRED to spend 2 hours every day studying. Not coding. Studying and reading papers on cognitive load theory, motivation research, and translating learning science into applications. Two hours. Every single day. Engineers like @yiran__c write about the neuroscience of handwriting. @arpangup shares the Harada Method. @LamarDealMaker explores AI for skill development. This isn't optional. It's the job. Your success metrics will lie to you. High DAUs don't mean kids are learning. Viral engagement doesn't mean mastery. The metrics that drive consumer tech success actively undermine educational outcomes. The money will tempt you to build the wrong thing. EdTech market: $400B by 2030. That capital creates pressure to optimize for pitch decks instead of classrooms. Byju's hit $22B before collapsing. An MBA analyzes constraints. A builder changes reality. What we require: ➡️ Mission Alignment ➡️ Agency ➡️ Strong Engineering Skills If you're chasing market opportunity or building for your resume, don't apply. But if you're a builder who sees broken systems and feels an overwhelming need to fix them? If you believe high standards create happy kids? If you want to change education for a billion children? Before applying, read the link in the reply. And if you're still interested after understanding what it really takes, let's talk about joining us in building the future of EdTech.

Settling the screen-time debate, one subject at a time.

These people are called AI Pathfinders.

Dunno why ppl have turned on Carl Hendrick cos he’s doing work with AI. Like even if you think most education AI stuff is gash, to suggest that AI isn’t a big part of the now and future is just silly. There’s also no reason there needs to be clash between being ‘evidence informed’ or whatever the term is and being pro safe use of AI in education. Evidence is an ever evolving thing.

NEW: Amazon researchers are reportedly behind the jailbreak report that led to the U.S. crackdown on Anthropic’s top models.

The founding fathers getting a shoutout by @tombennett71 at @researchED_US in Houston

Envy and resent act as a dominant negatives on your ability to be inspired. Protect that ability at all costs.

Decent collection at the @Superbuilders office @Alphaschool

Just when I was about to solve world hunger. 🤦‍♂️

Assuming Anthropic is able to restore Fable in the next few days, there's literally zero point doing any meaningful work until it is back. What can be done in 100 hours with Opus can be done in 1 with Fable. Hopefully this is figured out quickly.

Austin - building the best/most innovative K-12 education in the world.

I didn't believe this was real. @mattshumer_ was in my office, so I had him pull it up on my machine. It's 10x more detailed and expansive than he showed in his demo. Just watch this video, in full. It's almost unbelievable. But, it's very, very real.

Two-hour learning? AI-powered Alpha School lands in Seattle region geekwire.com/2026/two-hour-l…

LinkedIn was already slop. All that's changed is that it's now AI slop.

An American, a German, and an Irishman walk into a bar to watch the World Cup opening…

Kids can finish k-12 before they go to high-school we need to accelerate our learning timelines

This is similar to what we teach kids at Alpha School: 1) Use AI in the morning to learn traditional academics 10x faster. 2) Spend afternoons in human-led, team-based projects and workshops learning life skills.

I've been really surprised by the number of people I consider cracked engineers who are shitting on this post. I've been building with effective loops in mind for a while, and I would say I've built more effective products in the last 3 weeks than I have in the last year.

This aged unfortunately well.