1:22 Frustrations on the journey
6:04 My purpose
8:54 The Lindy effect
17:22 Killer use cases for AI or VR
23:47 Social fitness

I am documenting my entrepreneurial journey launching a new middle and high school in North Carolina. 

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🎞️ REFERENCES 

Amor Towles interview on How I Write - https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1757883132722737555?utm_source=pocket_saves
The Experimentation Layer by Pack McCormick - https://www.notboring.co/p/the-experimentation-layer
Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out by Derek Thompson - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/america-decline-hanging-out/677451/ 

Create-stars Startup or Story on Youtube

Recommendation: Michael Lewis' Against the Rules - The Art of the Untold Story on Apple or Spotify

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References - 

• American kids want to be famous on YouTube - https://www.businessinsider.com/american-kids-youtube-star-astronauts-survey-2019-7?op=1 
• Alternative education goes mainstream - https://obviouslythefuture.substack.com/p/alternative-education
• The rise in alternative education - https://hillside.substack.com/p/the-rise-in-alternative-education
• Twitter thread on alternative ed - https://twitter.com/jwdanner/status/1591821653339648000

Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If…? is the beginning of many questions I ask myself about the future. WIBAI has become my place to attempt to make sense of the world we live in and imagine ways to make it better.

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Jokedao Startup or Story on YouTube

Eleven Startup or Story on YouTube

Recommendation: Sam Harris' Making Sense #209 - A Good Life (guest Scott Barry Kauffman) on Apple or Spotify

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References - 

• The Only Crypto Story You Need, by legendary finance writer Matt Levine (fair warning: it’s 40k words so it really is the only one you need lol)
• Crypto’s Failed Promise
• Policy Proposals for Crypto Protocols to Make Them Less Dystopic and More Inclusive
• Crypto for people who don’t follow crypto
• The most important scarce resource is legitimacy
• The Dao of DAOs

Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If…? is the beginning of many questions I ask myself about the future. WIBAI has become my place to attempt to make sense of the world we live in and imagine ways to make it better.

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Story - Immersive Remix: "Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in C#min, Op. 66" by Carlos Hernandez

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Bethoyos Startup or Story on YouTube

Eleven Startup or Story on YouTube

Recommendation: LeVar Burton Reads "Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in C#min, Op. 66" by Carlos Hernandez on Apple or Spotify

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References - 
For virtual reality:

• Adventures in Technophilosophy: On the Reality of Virtual Worlds
• Twitter thread on why you shouldn’t be dismissive of VR
• VR: Explained (quite dated but done by the best explainer)
• Meta Quest 2 Review (this is the relatively cheap Meta headset)
• Meta’s new expensive Quest

Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If…? is the beginning of many questions I ask myself about the future. WIBAI has become my place to attempt to make sense of the world we live in and imagine ways to make it better.

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Bethoyos Startup or Story on YouTube

Recommendation: Hidden Brain's The Story of Your Life on Apple or Spotify

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References - 
For AI text generation:

• Open AI’s GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
• An AI might have written this
• Some of the main tools: GPT-3, Sudowrite, Lex

For AI art generation:

• Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E
• Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video
• Some of the main tools: DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Make-A-Video

Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If…? is the beginning of many questions I ask myself about the future. WIBAI has become my place to attempt to make sense of the world we live in and imagine ways to make it better.

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Other References
My Amazon page (for reviews) - https://amzn.to/3pDm7zq
The Deep Space Between by Cassandra Stirling - https://amzn.to/33Zir2q

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