Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, runs a unit at Stanford on business start-ups. Blake Masters was in the class, and took a whole bunch of notes, which he then re-wrote as essays and shared with the world. Reading them feels like I’m back at uni – lots of learning, lots of new ideas, and a whole bunch of things to think about. I’ll probably have a few posts that come out of reading these.
In the first essay, he says:
You know you’re on the right track when your answer takes the following form:
“Most people believe in X. But the truth is !X.”
For OurSchoolDiary, my tag line might be:
Most people are trying to get technology into the classroom. Meanwhile, we’re using technology to get parents into the classroom.