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David Perell: Modern education ignores 70 to 80 years of learning science
“None of the learning science that has come out in the last 70 to 80 years has actually been implemented.”
Perell: Corporate jobs in your twenties drain ambition and agency
“One of the issues with people in their twenties is they end up doing these stupid jobs where they go work in the soulless corporate environments where they, you know, quotes get paid to learn. And sometimes that's true. Don't get me wrong. Sometimes that is ve…”
Perell: Similarity and role overlap trigger destructive rivalry in teams
“You want people to be differentiated, own their territory, not have other people stomping on those territories, because that creates this competition and envy, and this leads into the philosophy of Rene Girard, who basically says that violence happens not beca…”
Perell: The internet fundamentally transforms education economics and class sizes
“And I saw how the internet was going to change the, had changed the economics of education forever. We were going to go from teachers teaching at minimum, at most, 40 students at a time to now teaching thousands, hundreds of thousands, and that the internet wa…”
Perell: 20-somethings underestimate how willing people are to help the young
“The other thing that people in their young twenties don't know is that everyone is willing to help you when you're young.”
Perell: Write of Passage charges a minimum of $4,000
“You know, you can't get into the course for less than 4000 dollars though. We do offer scholarships because of that.”
Perell: AI writing makes differentiation and unique voices more essential
“It's gonna become more important to be differentiated as artificial intelligence and GPT-III, GPT-IV, as they begin to do a lot of writing for people. You're gonna need to have a unique voice”
Perell: Culture is built by elevating exemplar members, not enforcing rules
“You don't do it through rules. You don't do it through laws. You don't do it through guidelines. You do it by taking people who represent that culture and sort of promoting them, showing them off through shout outs, showing them off through leadership position…”
Perell: Write of Passage launched with a $20,000 Emergent Ventures grant
“And right around then I got a 20,000 dollar grant from Tyler Cowen's Merchant Ventures program, took that 20,000 dollars, hired a Hollywood film crew, flew them down to Mexico City.”
Perell: Write of Passage cohort has 438 students across 41 countries
“So right now we have five week program, 438 students from 41 countries. I have 38 people who are helping me run this in some capacity.”
Perell: Peter Thiel mandated PayPal employees focus on one single task
“At PayPal, he had this rule. Where every single person had to work on one thing and one thing only, and he would only talk to people about one thing.”
Perell: Write of Passage aims to build physical hubs like Disneyland
“I basically want Rite of Passage to be like Disneyland for writing. I eventually want to have houses around the world where people can come in and have conversations that embody the Rite of Passage spirit, test them out to greatness.”