Matt Griswold
@griswold
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(education x games)^ai • sailed my kids around the world • founding father, technically
Austin, TX
Joined March 2008
The most overlooked superpower is to think in decades and act in days.
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“School is really just a bad video game.”. Let’s give the curriculum to game designers. We have a professional class with decades of experience keeping engagement and growth in balance. They don’t have degrees in Education — they solve problems empirically and iterate endlessly.
@garberchov The tricky part is that mastery leads to future engagement. You have to scaffold things down so quick wins happen early, but not so far down that those wins feel meaningless. Game designers get this right. School is really just a bad video game.
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RT @RobertMSterling: It’s our patriotic duty to make sure this guy never pays for his own beer again. Ever.
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The ideal education:. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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RT @sporadicalia: the midwit mind craves the comfort of criticism. because it is intelligent enough to see what's wrong with the world. bu….
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“What did you get done this weekend?”. 66.6666666% done
@ClintFix Well I have a "nobody's using that one" bike in the cousins' cabin and fresh mountain air to work with. We missed the Strider phase while sailing, so it's an "accelerated" training this weekend for all three! 🫣.
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I imagine this is what it's like flying with @bscholl.
In an uber with 2yo. We just hit traffic. 2yo is saying (with complete earnestness and frustration) “why slow, I wanna go faster, I wanna go faster” x100 and uber driver is losing it.
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Teaching your kid to ride a bike is the dad equivalent to breastfeeding.
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Listen to this with your eyes closed. The comments focus on how young the band is, but that's wrong. The music isn't good "for a kid"; it's good, period. Abolish the "for a kid" standard that sequesters kids from the real world – they are novices.
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Happy birthday to the best startup in history. My great^7 grandfather was a Founding Father, and I trust that we'll still be chasing their dream of "a more perfect union" for many, many generations to come. America is not defined by any moment, but by that pursuit.
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RT @JoshuaBaer: Austin leads the country in six-figure job growth. Houston and Dallas right behind.
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Imagine all the companies that rage quit to BlueSky and will keep employing Soham for years!.
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This is “Catch Me If You Can” for people who prefer the command line.
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
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I am begging the advertising industry to show at least 2.1 kids per family!
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"This isn’t some ordinary certification program or glorified internship." 🔥 I expect we'll see many more companies moving upstream to shape (and sometimes deliver) education directly.
Two weeks ago, I announced the American Tech Fellowship, @PalantirTech’s effort to find and unleash the American patriots who will create the AI age. Today, I’m pleased to introduce the inaugural class of American Tech Fellows. More than 500 applied. Thirty-eight were chosen.
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Unpopular opinion: this should be legal.
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