How I Built This with Guy Raz

What How I Built This with Guy Raz Says About Education

13 episodes about education

<p>Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode,...

Key Insights on Education

Labs spending billions on RL training for specific skills contradicts claims of imminent human-like learning capabilities

  • Continual learning will progress like in-context learning - gradual improvement over 5-10 years, not sudden breakthrough
  • The underlying AI technology exponential has progressed roughly as expected, moving from 'smart high school student to smart college student to beginning PhD level' - Dario
  • "If you can't explain it to a smart high school student, you don't understand it" - Chris wrote Read Write Own as crypto's 2024 onboarding manual for skeptics
  • Only circumcised covenant members could partake of the Passover meal, paralleling Catholic teaching on Eucharistic participation
  • Most experts are experts in a previous version of the world, not the one you're trying to create - fast learning matters most
  • Scripture reveals God's 'plus one theory of education' - helping people progress gradually from their current moral level
  • The Prussian school system emerged from military needs to train conscripts, creating the modern educational model used in America today

Episodes

STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct

STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct

NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company

NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company

Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant

Room & Board: John Gabbert. A Broken Deal, a Family Rift, and the Birth of a Furniture Giant

Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue

Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea β€” And a Nail-Biting Exit

Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea β€” And a Nail-Biting Exit

Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery

Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery

Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork

Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork

Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M

Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M

Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite

Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite

Netflix: Reed Hastings. β€œWe’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant

Netflix: Reed Hastings. β€œWe’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant

Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban

Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban

La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)

La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)

Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon (December 2024)

Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon (December 2024)

Books on education

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