The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.

For startups, “the story” is essential to everything: attracting talent, pitching investors & winning deals. For Jennifer Carolan, it’s one of the four common traits of all successful founders.

reachcapital.com/2024/05/06/the…

as is any chief/office/department of 'innovation'

For many people ✋ writing is the most brutal exercise in thinking. What do we gain and lose when students use #AI to write?

My latest in EdSurge (after a 3-year hiatus) #edtech

edsurge.com/news/2024-04-2…

another #edtech “bloom” goes bust
(InBloom anyone?)

consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsr…

Mad respect for founders (noun) but seeing found/founding used as a present tense verb still kinda bugs me

“All good leaders have to be able to say the data is telling them something different than the beliefs they held. By equal measure, they also have to be willing to augment the data with those beliefs when it’s appropriate.”

reachcapital.com/2024/04/11/dat…

why did google docs etc. make a big fuss about its redesign? what improvements am i missing? it feels the same.

I used to be skeptical about the utility and value of AI text detectors.

Then I asked for cover letters as part of a job application.

#edtech ftw marketwatch.com/story/democrat…

ngl i’m having a jolly time looking at these gemini pics 🤭

shoutout to all the kumon kids and those dreaded stacks of worksheets

edutopia.org/article/how-de…

Inviting Community College Students to See Themselves as University Researchers edsurge.com/news/2024-02-1… via EdSurge

as AI advances, so do bot checkers

No ❤️ for #edtech ? A glaring absence on YC’s RFS (request for startups) list published on this Valentine’s Day (though some of these categories have clear training and workforce development needs)

ycombinator.com/rfs

feel so alive at this hour, and i'm going to pay for it tomorrow

HOW IS TEMU AFFORDING THIS MANY ADS