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In todays growth obsessed startup world, where i even find some yc advisors focusing too much on growth metrics in their advice, this essay by Sam Altman sounds more sane to me. It…

Both messiness and orderliness have their own place in work. I find that to be particularly true when you are starting to experiment with some product or solution. At that time, yo…

Makes sense Unless one can understand and appreciate how kids feel about the product, product would not work. An education product must have offline, online and human touch for it …

This explains contribution of github in enabling software collaboration. Just change that to education material and it would explain the why https://youtu.be/w3jLJU7DT5E

For me, schools and universities are not right place to start. Start with working professionals and adults. If a solution there is enormously successful, it would work its way back…

Maybe the answer is to create for professionals and adults first. Once its a success there, schools would follow.

I think answer is scale. Why should open source software not be created by one company in a closed way ? Both software and learning material are extremely elastic. Once created, th…

Awesome, thats a step in right direction i believe

Tech has been a success in e-commerce, social networks, transactional apps like uber or ebay. It has however not made a significant dent in education. Why ? What do you think is th…