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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Apr 2018
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      17/ Btw if any of you are interested in this stuff and looking to “disrupt” regular grad school or even undergrad, note that that’s likely a bad idea. They’re disrupting themselves pretty well with their free/cheap catalog-openings in partnership with the Courseras of the world

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Apr 2018
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      18/ What we’re talking about here is really an indie teaching scene by analogy to indie music. The big univs are like the big record labels. No point competing where they have a deep back catalog of material ready to go. Either teach New Economy UG or Weird Topics grad school

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Apr 2018
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      19/ If you want to teach New Economy UG, you have to think like a consumer business and design for scale, efficiency, packaging, mass marketing, intake funnels, and probably a sub $300 price range

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Apr 2018
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      20/ If you want to teach Weird Topics grad school, you need to figure out a link/cross-subsidy with research/writing/making/indie-creating, focus on bespoke teaching relationships, and a price < $100, unless you can figure out a scholarship model and make it free (my preference)

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    5. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 20 Apr 2018
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      I have similar ideas for “weird topics” in productivity taught by many different teachers. But why don’t you think it can be premium priced? Like boutique in-person courses on massage therapy, orgasmic meditation, public speaking, sitting/walking techniques

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    6. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 20 Apr 2018
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      Such courses consume a significant part of Bay Area time and budgets

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Apr 2018
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      Same reason nobody who deserves a PhD ever pays for one. Adverse selection. The point of such teaching is to surface best talent who can advance research/writing, not people who can most afford to pay. They’re not entirely orthogonal, but definitely not the same populations.

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    8. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 20 Apr 2018
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      I guess I’m thinking of it more as a form of intellectual entertainment or personal development, not as actually pushing the frontier of anything. Still hard to imagine that happening outside of institutions, even for me

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Apr 2018
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      That’s likely because you have an exalted view of what happens inside institutions. If you’re willing to trust my word for it, the only serious difference is high capex equipment like electron microscopes. Otherwise they do exactly what we outsiders do: read, think, code, write.

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    10. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 20 Apr 2018
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      But how about the extensive social support structures, accountability, built in milestones, social proof, etc? Those seem incredibly valuable, almost essential. Is that what you’re saying needs to be reinvented?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Apr 2018
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      They *were* valuable, like million-dollar Heidelberg presses were before free wordpress was available

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Apr 2018
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          A campus is basically like a physical newspaper. Not worth it if you can do all the soft stuff virtually and have no need for say, electron microscopes or rare old books that cant be digitized or fossils that cant be 3d scanned

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