briantobal
@briantobal
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Startup handyman
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Joined September 2008
from my notes on the childhoods of people who went on to do exceptional work
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Use 10% of it for 1:1 tutoring and they'll also outperform.
Hot take: The money you save by NOT sending your kids to private school will benefit them more as a lump sum in the future than the private school education would have.
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Do both. And it adjusts per location. But simply - sunlight is magic.
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My understanding of the research and from direct experience bulding campuses and classrooms - increasing window size and the amount of direct sunlight in each classroom would outperform this.
putting a cheap air filter in a classroom leads to roughly the same increase in student test outcomes as the best charter schools in the country ($18k/y)
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Kerouac just hits different.
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The more time I spend in startups the more I believe that the people are all that really matters
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Most of the people doing important work are people you’ve never heard of—they want it that way. Most happy people don’t need you to know how happy they are—they aren’t thinking about you at all.
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Same - this was a “before and after” book for me.
Every year, I re-read The Goal. This book was mandatory reading in my first industrial engineering class in college and it changed my outlook on life. It follows the fictional story of a factory manager who only has a few months to save his failing factory or else it will be
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"Everyone thinks you can hire someone to do this." "That fails 100% of the time." The secret to building a successful startup, according to Sam Altman? Doing this every day:
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Zoom + Calendar integration that measures when meetings run long depending on certain attendees and automatically blocks overflow time to future meetings to prevent the snowball of being consistently late. #sparkfile
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There should be a startup round that's before pre-seed that's just investors and founders agreeing on funding a few simple experiments that they want to run together.
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Wife to me: "If you got a tattoo, people wouldn't think you're dangerous, they'd just think you're a chef."
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Key Point: The key philosophy behind how the program was designed "I do, we do, you do" https://t.co/gdzrwf4eB0
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Key Point: Teaching the fundamentals as a free top of funnel experience as "2 week free mini bootcamps". https://t.co/i2OrShsUlk
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Key Point: The best program designers are just great product people because they understand measurement and iteration. https://t.co/z5RjpXdrjm
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Key Point: How the teachers interacted with students and how they scaled the student <> teacher relationship to thousands of students.
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Had a great convo with @calebhicks looking back at his time building the initial academics program at Lambda School (Now Bloom Tech) and how he scaled an online school to 1000's of students and hit venture scale. https://t.co/SmLeszBT8k
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