• Los Angeles-based writer, marketer, and content creator.
• Alumnus of the 2014 Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop.
• Former business owner, inventor, and creative director.
• Broad longtermist, but not certain about anything...
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Educate, empower, and enable diverse talent to work on solutions for the world’s biggest issues.
What is it?
A remote school offering tuition-free education and job placement for vital roles (data scientist, researcher, engineer, etc.) in areas of crucial need (climate, economics, healthcare, etc.).
Process
Identify important areas where key talent is lacking.
Establish tuition-free online school led by top thinkers.
Dispense task-oriented knowledge in short period of time.
Create post-graduation job placement program for sectors in need.
Effect
Remove barriers to higher education.
Create access to opportunities, regardless of location, language, background, etc.
Lift people out of poverty.
Funnel talent into organizations and projects that need the most support.
Solve range of vital issues.
Grow pool of world problem solvers.
Inspire next generation of doers and founders.
Growth
Open up to more students, more languages, more education levels, more areas of speciality.
Create accelerator program to invest in alum startups.
Closing
Two things that scale well are knowledge and technology. So, rather than attempt to choose a single area of focus, create a megaproject that both democratizes pursuits and crowdsources solutions. This has the potential to produce a network effect on a variety of problems, while removing hierarchal barriers. Scaling continues until new talent declines to join and/or roles disappear, or problems are solved (due to lack of new focus areas and/or some yet-to-be realized superior option i.e. ML/AI).
Inspiration
Lambda School https://lambdaschool.com
Y Combinator https://www.ycombinator.com
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