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An update on Fractal Tech Bootcamp, and a request for help 🙏🏼 I started an AI engineering accelerator (a “bootcamp”) about 1 year ago, because my friends and I could not find enough good AI talent to hire, and I’m obsessed with educational reform. The bootcamp was an experiment- an attempt to see how much better adult education can be when we apply principles from my education research into Montessori, Xerox PARC, ARPA, The Manhattan Project, Black Mountain College, YCombinator, The Royal Society, The Jesuits, and other great cultures. It might sound grandiose, but what if I treated culture and education as an engineering project? What if I leveraged everything I knew about tech, culture, and education to help students learn effectively? We've run 3 cohorts so far, and the results are very good. Even in a tough tech market, we have a 100% placement rate into SWE jobs. One of my students raised $500k for his startup. And the thing is, this is barely a prototype- I’ve only built out a fraction of the educational program I intend to build. I'm just getting started. Montessori describes a process called “normalization” by which the student adapts to the culture of focused work in the classroom. After a child has normalized, they work just for the sake of it, because they want to, because they enjoy it, because they love the work of learning, because everyone around them loves the work of learning. We have built a space and a culture where everyone loves to work on software engineering, all the time. At Fractal Tech, students are immersed in this rigorous, high-achieving environment where shipping 3-5 PRs per day is a baseline expectation of the culture, because we enjoy being prolific. Students learn how to work on professional engineering teams before they graduate, because every student gets an internship with a local startup. Students learn what real code review looks like, because every instructor has led engineering teams, and we deliver brutally honest (and invaluable) feedback on code quality. Also, we built an entire tech coworking space to create a feeling of immersion. If you want to teach someone French, don't give them a dictionary, just drop them in France. Students work side-by-side with over 50 other professional founders and engineers, who naturally mentor the students and show them what real work looks like. Students work in-person, they make friends, they network casually, just by being in the space. I’m proud of what we've built so far, and now my goal is to share it with the world. I’m reaching out to Twitter for referrals because you know what I’m about, and I could use your help finding ideal students. Maybe you, reading this, are my ideal student :0 If you have a friend who could use our program, and our network, to level up as a software engineer, please refer them to me. Our ideal student knows how to code, but wants help becoming great: Think recently unemployed devs ready to bounce back, self-taught devs or CS students looking to break into the industry, coders and PMs stuck in boring jobs, or entrepreneurs who need technical skills & a network to make their startup happen. They will be in good hands. Sincerely, Andrew P.S. website in next tweet to appease the Twitter gods

We asked him how he was able to pull it off, hoping his juju would rub off on us. "Well," he said, "You just gotta think. And then do it right." With his help, we hit our wildly ambitious deadlines.

Erst beim Abbau von #WerWirSind ist aufgefallen, dass wir ein Werk mehr in unserer #Ausstellung hatten! 😱 Jemand hat uns ein Bild in die Ausstellung gehängt. Wir finden das lustig & möchten den/die Künstler*in kennenlernen. Also melde dich! Es gibt keinen Ärger. Ehrenwort.🤞

I just learned that my first piece sold outside of revel, to the amazing @NomadsVagabonds!!! Honored to be added to the collection of an artist I admire so much. This was from the AI Art Weekly cover contest a month or so ago hosted by @dreamingtulpa. Thanks to you both!