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The School Sucks Podcast is a place where we have tough conversations about school in order to rethink and reinvent education.  

Our goal is that no student ever has to say "school sucks" ever again.  

In this episode, I had a chance to chat with Nir Eyal!   

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.  Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, "The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology."  

He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.  Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award as well as being named one of the Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon and one of the Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible. The Globe and Mail called Indistractable, "the best business book of 2019."  

In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today.  Nir is also an active investor in habit-forming technologies. Some of his past investments include Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Kahoot! (KAHOOT-ME.OL), Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Product Hunt, Marco Polo, Presence Learning, 7 Cups, Pana, Byte Foods, FocusMate, and Shadow.  

Nir attended The Stanford Graduate School of Business and Emory University.  

Find more about Nir at https://www.nirandfar.com/nir-eyal-bio/

The School Sucks Podcast is a place where we have tough conversations about school in order to rethink and reinvent education.  

Our goal is that no student ever has to say "school sucks" ever again. 

In this episode, I had a chance to chat with my friend Karl Millsom, the Founder of the Rebel Teacher Network.

The School Sucks Podcast is a place where we have tough conversations about school in order to rethink and reinvent education. 

Our goal is that no student ever has to say "school sucks" ever again.  

In this episode, I dove into a question I have had for quite some time now: What makes a great teacher?  

Check out these links from today's episode:  

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mike-yates_teaching-education-questionoftheday-activity-6712089842911600640-nbLP  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnMTHhKdkw  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0LBzBKV6M

The School Sucks Podcast is a place where we have tough conversations about school in order to rethink and reinvent education.  

Our goal is that no student ever has to say "school sucks" ever again.  

In this episode, I had a chance to chat with my friend Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang, the Founder of Classroom Without Walls. We discussed education innovation, the college system, and the benefits of homeschooling.   

Find more of Dr. Ai at the links below:  

https://www.classroomwithoutwalls.ai/welcome-page  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aiaddysonzhang/  

https://twitter.com/aiaddysonzhang  

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/classroom-without-walls/id1527466932

The School Sucks Podcast is a place where we have tough conversations about school in order to rethink and reinvent education.

Our goal is that no student ever has to say "school sucks" ever again.

In this episode, I covered the reasons why I believe grades should be completely abolished from the k-12 classroom.

If you want to check out the videos used in this episode, click the links below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KShfEMy8UZQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfRALeA3mdU

The School Sucks Podcast is a place where we have tough conversations about school in order to rethink and reinvent education.   

Our goal is that no student ever has to say "school sucks" ever again.   

In this episode, I covered the reasons why I believe lectures should be completely abolished from the k-12 classroom.   

For this podcast, I used videos from Trevor Muir: 

- Lets Put an end to Long Lectures 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_iFqfTO92w

We all know school needs to change.  

That's why I created the School Sucks Podcast. Here we talk about reinvention, rethinking, equity, diversity, and activation. 

This podcast is holding space for radical conversations about the change we hope to see in education.   

This week concludes our 4 part series: Does School Really Suck?   

I sat down with Guide CEO and Co-Founder, Tim Salau. Tim is an expert in the future of work and network leadership having worked for global brands like Microsoft, Facebook, and WeWork. He left that world to build Guide. In its original context, Guide was a startup built by Tim, our friend Taban and yours truly to provide life skills content to high school students.   

Recently the company has pivoted to a B2B training platform where companies can train remote employees in seconds.   

Find Tim here:  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timsalau/ 

https://twitter.com/timsalau 

https://www.guideapp.co/

This is part 3/4 in the series "Does School Really Suck."  

In this episode, we talk about something I call the 100-year tragedy! You'll find that school really hasn't changed all that much in the last 100 years. Feel free to connect with me and let me know your thoughts! 

Check out the episode and comment your thoughts below.   

John Marty is a Sr. Product Manager at Amazon and Co-Founder of Project 1B, a nonprofit that seeks to help 1 billion people around the world find their purpose and passion. John was named a Linkedin Top Voice for 2020 and is also one of the top 20 YouTube Channels for job seekers.  In this episode, John and I talked about his school story, the college system and how to create learning that maps to future careers. 

All of this in pursuit of answering the question, Does School Really Suck?  

Here's how to find more of John: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrmarty/ 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnMarty-uncommon/featured 

Website: http://www.johnraphaelmarty.com/  

When I announced this podcast on my social media platforms, one of the comments read, "Does school really suck..." I thought, "OF COURSE IT DOES!" Then it hit me. This is the perfect way to kick off the School Sucks podcast. 

We are going to spend the next four weeks diving into some data to answer this question: "Doest school really suck?" 

What do you think?