"it used to be the norm to take tremendous responsibility at 12 or 13 at puberty there was a right of passage and the young man was supposed to go out and Hunt his first deer people like Ben Franklin T..."

"shaas with yet another infinite Loops today's guest Michael Strong is one of like the most impressive people I have had the uh privilege to chat with um you are one of the most experienced designers o..."

"you when I became aware of the cratic experience um and I'm a I'm a huge fan of the early Greek philosophers um and and I chuckled when I saw the name because we all know what happened to Socrates for..."

"your social Mobility cred is pretty amazing uh you were born to teenage parents your mom was a 16-year-old High School Dropout your dad was 18 and yet you got admitted to Harvard Yale and Dartmouth on..."

"and the role of culture um so yeah my father was actually raised on a farm near finless in Minnesota and I I do think Scandinavian culture you Northern Minnesota hardworking Farm culture was amazing u..."

"to study biology if they don't really read fluently so um I would say reading was the biggest thing know just the other thing is I had a uh 90minut bus ride to and from school up to baggley and then m..."

"Dixon line integrated in the 1940s and the first black Johnny was asked um do they care about race at St John's and he said no they care more about if you're a platonist or an Aristotelian than if you..."

"Co hit I left to create the socratic experience so virtual program grades 3 through 12 3 through 12 for entrepreneurial intellectual and creative students so I can go a lot of directions but that's a ..."

"of back up to some Universal issues and I'll go back to my particular project but I'm a big believer that um High agency is the norm for Humanity uh just going back to traditional cultures around the ..."

"hadn't realized is Cowboys in the late 19th centuries were boys they were 12 13y old boys who out riding cattle so the expectations of maturity used to be so much higher and even things like brain dev..."

"historically um tremendous agency used to be the norm and B we are seeing uh early doctors including and perhaps especially the tech Elite not just the tech Elite agile coders I know agile software tr..."

"great question so a couple of things um for one I'm very excited about educational scholarship accounts you know esas Arizona piloted this I believe two years ago now where they gave all 1.1 million s..."

"um all kinds of things and there are a wide range of materials for all sorts of people to educate um going in a different direction my wife was from Africa she's from snagle she and I have a school in..."

"at oari ventures is high agency uh and we have a bunch of different ways to test for it but uh how do you how do you deal with the unmotivated how do you deal how do you take somebody who um just uh n..."

"everything hunting and playing are basically the same they're sort of pretend hunting they probably don't catch a lot but they're out there doing it often the girls are either pretend or actually help..."

"medication and all of this sort of thing happening um so I'm very interested for instance in Monas you go into a Monas primary classroom you see three four five year olds moving about the room indepen..."

"not agentic at school they're not agentic at home you know obviously homes where you you can go to regular school and if your home is very high agency no problem school is not an issue but if you don'..."

"yeah I I was lucky I think as you know I was lucky enough to be in the first monor class uh in Minnesota and uh I I badly cut my hand when I was at monor and my mom told the story I don't actually rem..."

"inquiry do lead to uh a broader education Etc but how do we take what what is a massive problem at least here in the west uh where that is no longer the case where kids are not growing up in household..."

"the situation that we find oursel in today and I'm all for slaying dragons and and for you know the uh the Don keyote Quest but H how how does that how do we how do we get in and and change that so ag..."

"forgetting which of the Great early entrepreneurs it was but there one those entrepreneurs I read an account of his him in the early 20th century where he didn't go to school until he was 17 went to t..."

"point one point two is one of the things I'm really trying to get people to focus on is it is more about culture subculture and so forth rather than educational program and policy which sounds odd bec..."

"other people to help us be accountable and the message I want to get to any family that's interested in Social Mobility again I was I was raised very poor sometimes we didn't have enough to eat I woul..."

"quick rough on that one there's considerable evidence that um religious African-Americans do better in college than non-religious ones again it's interesting to me as a secular person that these and I..."

"sustain that virtue culture without it itself sliding into Orthodoxy because later in our conversation I'm gonna uh ask you about about that there there are a lot of incredible communities a lot of th..."

"we make room for crazy very different sort of case I've been extremely interested the vicy of San Francisco maybe not recently but you know 60s 70s ' 80s 90s early OD San Francisco was the place I thi..."

"entrepreneur as a leader being able to make decisions based on the principles for which your organization stands articulating those principles really clearly and then yeah ultimately hiring firing pro..."

"to kind of uh the original question of you used San Francisco as an example now San Francisco today is unfortunately an example of the very opposite of what it became well known for right it it is inc..."

"whether it's for-profit nonprofit you know if Government can do it right I'm okay with government I think it's harder for government to do it right but whatever it takes we need to support the promisi..."

"blame Academia I was appalled um when I was in graduate school in the 1980s I was first um exposed to Herbert maruza and maruza actually said we should we intellectuals We thinkers we academics should..."

"that term uh in the 1950s uh there was a Senator named Joe McCarthy he decided that uh the state department and a variety of other institutions in America's political structure were hot beds of commun..."

"emotionally held beliefs right and and I wonder because the Socratic method and and logic and and all of that is pretty much the opposite of an emotionally held belief but like how do you change an em..."

"that Point um you know Africa is the most regulated region in the world and people don't realize that one of my frustrations with Academia shutting down debate is there is an economic literature on th..."

"horrible so into that round I too am a huge fan of Africa and Africans I've been several times and it was literally a transformational experience for me um it from the investment side we are partnered..."

"so Crystal Clear and so I think uh you know the truth ought to be predictive right and and when you look at outcomes it's very very difficult and now let me add the paren despite all of the problems a..."

"you know I was at University of Chicago where with in econ it was totally okay to be free market capitalist but outside of the econ Department there was a tremendous hostility towards free market capi..."

"uh Todd Rose wrote a great book called Collective Illusions in which he talks about this almost invisible and unintentional by the way Society has this way of creating norms and establishing Norms uh ..."

"know your brand andv is brand is harah another one you know we need as many people in this Positive Solutions oriented space as possible so thank you um prediction markets and you know reputational be..."

"incentive to pay attention to that which will most likely lead to outcome predictable outcome yeah the uh it's one of the reasons why uh all but one of the companies I found it was my name uh because ..."

"comfortable with going from genius to to genius back to back to genius back to and it it amazed me though and I was taking aack um when uh something that I had done uh was attacked pretty viciously u..."

"look at it if you compare the fund against its actual Benchmark you know a small cap growth Benchmark it's actually outperforming that Benchmark but you're comparing it to the NASDAQ and so the ultima..."

"more people first I think the reputation for predictions alignment between predictions and outcomes first being willing to uh to take to make predictions and to take responsibility for the predictions..."

"the atmosphere around climate change debate in the public broad public is if you say anything then all of a sudden you're ostracized and so going back to the truth seeking I would like to see reputati..."

"arguing maybe online or in the family whatever we probably get into Hyperbole and say things that are a little bit more exaggerated in the reality we're humans it happens but it's like okay now let's ..."

"not part of them I just want Solutions and the whole thing with predictions is which thing is going to work and I think we can create a large movement around which thing is going to work and as we dev..."

"problem and that led me to actually change my view on nuclear power uh if you uh I had been like everyone else it seems anti-nuclear and then as the climate change thing heated up I was like huh I'm g..."

"decision science she's um she's founded the or co-founded the alliance for decision education um we actually have a course taught by the decision Education Foundation who's close to them uh Chris pres..."

"ubiquitous part of Education how do we make rational decisions um going back to kind of another po point of how we do this you know I love Paul Graham founder of Y combinator as an essayist as well on..."

"family in pursuit of the truth that's sort of very simp but you know um I'm not part of this or that team and just oddly uh I have no interest in sports and I know most especially most men love sports..."

"broadly yeah I like you really don't care for team sports of any kind I kind of like college football but that's for a different reason because my kids were interested and so I that was kind of fun bu..."

"to a belief which is probably wrong by the way that's the other thing that that I often do I I often remind myself that you know if if you and I jumped in a time machine and we had already identified ..."

"far more open view of Alternatives and other ideas another thing I we're pretty deeply involved in Ai and investment in AI companies and one of the things that I love to do with it is create Steelman ..."