Joe Liemandt

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"In 1910, the tractor, Case tractor, rolled up on the American farm. And literally, you can go look at the ads, it literally looks like an Anthropic ad: does the work of 50 farm hands."

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"SpaceX hired him to build one on Starbase. So it took this kid who was not into just sitting at the books all day, and all of a sudden he's like, 'Okay, I can spend the time building.'"

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"They're like, 'Oh, we have to bring in solar and Starlink and dig a well and the community is very different.'"

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"We'll have the first high school student lead researcher published in Nature. She trained an LLM in social-emotional advice and the surprising finding was it crushed the parents at giving social-emotional advice to teens."

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"He sent the kids out and they had to raise $25,000 selling sponsorships. It's almost as if Jack Black and School of Rock — everybody watches School of Rock and is like, 'I wish my school would do that.'"

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"Our Austin kids are like Austin City Limits, right? We're doing Alpha City Limits. These fifth, sixth graders are putting on their own music festival."

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"Why doesn't everybody have an MIT degree? The open courseware is available. Libraries have been here forever. Khan Academy — why doesn't everybody just use that?"

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"There was a hackathon on the weekend about learning how to use Cursor. Fully voluntary. Kids would come in at 6:00 on a Friday and work through the weekend."

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"Mackenzie Price just did a podcast with Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America. The line is teachers didn't become teachers to grade seventh grade science quizzes — they became teachers to transform kids' lives."

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"There's a great book called Self-Driven Child that alpha parents read. You have basically six or seven years in middle and high school where you're trying to decide one of two things: are you trying to unlock your kid's potential or impose your value system on them?"

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"Five of them had written editorials to their school paper about how it's just a charade, how the kids come in are like scrolling TikTok or on their computers not paying attention or not showing up."

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"They're on the dopamine loop — they're caught on TikTok, they're caught on Fortnite — they're just caught in the loops, causes mental health issues, they're isolated."