Pre 2020 cofounders living through Covid, SVB shutdown, a couple wars and now the AI wave

Here’s the thing about “student-led learning” in K-12; students are children & they don’t know what they don’t know. If students only learn about things that interest them, they’re deprived of opportunities to learn about things that might interest them but don’t know about yet.

A couple years ago, when I stepped out of a founder role, it was pretty interesting to see how differently companies treated me. Some teams at places like Ramp, Rippling, ClickUp, Nvidia, and a couple hot Utah startups responded to cold DMs with zero hesitation about my non-specialized “founder background.” If anything, that experience was the reason they took the call. Meanwhile, more traditional companies (Fortune 500s, bigger/older tech companies, etc.) had the hardest time putting me in a box. They couldn’t see past the “5–7 years of directly qualified experience” requirement. Notably… none of those companies were growing anywhere close to the pace of the first group. And thankfully, I ended up at one of the high-growth ones. Idk who needs to hear this, but, hire former founders. Failed founders, young founders, successfully exited founders, founders who’ll definitely be founders again but want to learn from other high-agency people inside strong PMF businesses… hire founders. They’ll operate like business owners inside your org and find meaningful ways to drive value way beyond their job description.

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At Reach, we back brilliant founders building across learning, health, and work. Now we’re extending that support beyond our portfolio with Cobalt Collective, a new nonprofit built to bridge high-growth tech and evidence-based impact.

Dear Siri, when I try to type “is” I’m am never trying to type “OSS”. Sincerely, —phil—

Are the Purported Causes of NAEP Score Decline Actually Symptoms?open.substack.com/pub/dtwuva…

Have student's attention spans been decimated by digital technologies? In @EducationNext I look at the data and conclude that's not the problem. educationnext.org/pay-attent…

The answer to one of the most universal questions in computing education: "Which Programming Language Should I Teach First?" It's not what you're expecting. At all. parentheticallyspeaking.org/…

🤩We're proud to collaborate with @Derivita to transform math classrooms! 🤝Together, we're empowering teachers with a seamless TI-Nspire CX II graphing calculator integration that drives real-time engagement and critical thinking. 🧠🥳

We have a Derivita Power User Story for you all with our celebrated Derivita Teacher of the Month: Margaret Scarano! Check it out here: derivita.com/2024-b2s-tom-pa… #derivita #backtoschool2024 #iteachmath

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Multi-column figures, line numbers, improved PDFs, and faster performance – Typst 0.12 is a game changing release. To show you how to use it for your projects, we have put together a short video

World's largest house number?

Remembering the time @Canvas_by_Inst where we crashed @Blackboard #bbworld11 conference in Vegas at the Venetian. Booked the bar right in the same hallway as their event and held a party for their customers. One of my favorite t-shirts we gave out to their customers.

Chipotle for years is our allergy family's go-to restaurant. Love this video my son made: instagram.com/reel/C88xYaMu2…

A very good Q&A with the head of Brown's endowment. Honestly addresses many of the misconceptions that people have about how US university endowments work (including some current hot-button topics). brown.edu/news/2024-04-19/di…

If we're preaching grit and resilience to our students but not examining our assessment practices to ensure there's room for mistakes and opportunities for students to see evidence of success... ...we're really just telling students to overcome barriers we've created.

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.

I can’t stop watching.. 🧐 x.com/buitengebieden/status/…