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Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen.  In this latest episode -- the final in a three part series on the current crisis in higher education -- Marc and Ben answer YOUR questions from X (formerly Twitter).

In this one-on-one conversation, Ben and Marc unpack the merits of a Harvard undergrad education versus a Thiel Fellowship, discuss the benefits of trade school, and determine what universities are going to look like ten years from now. That and much more!  Please enjoy.

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Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen.  In this latest episode, Marc and Ben tackle the university system – a hot topic that’s been dominating the news over the past few months.

As Marc states at the top of the episode, universities matter tremendously to our world, but they’re currently in a state of crisis.  In this one-on-one conversation, Ben and Marc take a “structural” look at higher education, delving deep into the twelve functions of the modern university.  They also unpack the numerous challenges that universities face today – the student debt and the replication crisis, among them.  

As colleges face an existential dilemma that could have long lasting repercussions, how can we find ways to improve these institutions, while being open to new entrepreneurial opportunities in education? Enjoy!

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– “The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money” by Bryan Kaplan https://amzn.to/47HOSOO

– “Public Opinion” by Walter Lippmann amzn.to/48uY3m5

Article mentioned on this podcast:

– “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” by John Ioannidis bit.ly/3RZnqWa

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Dr Jordan B Peterson and Temple Grandin discuss the pros and cons of visual and verbal thinking, as well as categorization, animal welfare, targeted activism, and the importance of hands-on learning opportunities.

Temple Grandin is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed for handling livestock are used by companies all around the world. Her work has also been instrumental in implementing animal welfare auditing programs, now used by McDonalds, Wendy’s, Whole Foods, and many other major corporations. Temple has appeared on numerous shows across platforms, such as 20/20, Larry King Live, and Prime Time. Grandin is an accomplished author, with books such as Thinking in Pictures, Livestock Handling and Transport, and The Autistic Brain. A few of her other publications, Animals in Translation, as well as Visual Thinking, have even made it to the New York Times Bestseller List. In 2017, Grandin was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and in 2022 she was honored once again as a Colorado State Distinguished Professor.

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(0:00) Coming up

(1:00) Intro

(3:00) Visual thinking and categorization

(6:32) Thinking in words, comparative invention

(8:50) Associative thinking, dreams

(12:00) Thought process

(13:00) Autism, things out of place

(16:40) Skill loss, screened out

(20:00) Two types of visual thinking

(24:50) Skillsets geared toward visual thinkers

(26:00) Grandin demonstrates associative thinking

(28:15) Dreams and association webs

(30:50) Cohen, shop taken out of schools

(33:45) Virtualization, exposure learning

(36:30) Removed from the practical

(38:00) Citations, proof

(41:30) Recommendations for visual thinkers

(46:23) Working in tandem

(47:50) Broad and pointed design

(55:40) Gap between the practical and abstract

(59:30) Competition, neuro diversity

(1:02:00) Privileging of the semantic

(1:04:00) Vintage textbooks, object visualization

(1:07:00) Mechanics are not being replenished

(1:08:30) Fragility of our power grid

(1:10:40) Behavior of cows, follow the leader

(1:16:45) Stopping cattle, novel attractors

(1:18:50) Voluntary exposure

(1:23:55) Humane slaughter, distress

(1:27:00) How the plants work

(1:28:20) Grandin on her early career

(1:33:35) Animal welfare, targeted activism

(1:36:40) Why cattle?

(1:38:34) Facing fear and backdoors

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A lot of the time we can find ourselves on this hamster wheel of trying to optimise every waking hour of our days, hyper-focused on time and paranoid about how the decisions we make today will influence our future selves. But ultimately the hamster wheel just keeps on spinning when we don’t take a moment to slow down, reflect and enjoy the moment.

Nasir Kharma is a medical student King’s College London, best known for his YouTube Channel, Kharma Medic, where he talks about studying, productivity and what it’s like being a med student. In the conversation we chat about how he started his channel and began to play the YouTube game, how his time in therapy has shifted his thinking around time management and how we’ve been thinking about what it means to live a meaningful life recently.

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