The curriculum is based on mentorship, projects, skill building, learning, and reporting.

Possible Mentors

There are many possible mentors for me. Could you be one? Here is a list of people I admire and would love to have as mentors …

Living
Bryan Caplan - economics and free markets
David Goggins - determination, grit, not giving up
Jim Steele - the natural world
Jordan Peterson - right behavior
Max Tabarrok - thinking, writing, worldview
Kevin Dick - cost/benefit analysis
Dave Snowden - framing, worldview
Richard Dawkins - making clear arguments
Nassim Taleb - black swans, assymmetries, and the Pareto principle
Eliezer Yudkowsky - decision science
Robin Hanson - governance, market design, and signaling
Annie Duke - thinking in bets
Andy May - modeling, forecasting
Esther Duflo - controlled social experiments
Chamath Palihapitiya - Risk taking, innovation
Edward O Thorp - investing
Russ Roberts - podcasting, critical thinking
Donald Hoffman - reality
Chris Voss - negotiation skills
Robert Greene - stupidity
Doug Hubbard - Bayesian reasoning, statistics, decision science
James Clear - atomic habits
Max Roser - data science

Non-living
Richard Feynman
George Carlin
Michael Crichton
Marie Curie
Claude Shannon

Skill building

I’d like to build skills, like these:

Numeracy (good with numbers, not good at doing math homework)
Spreadsheets
Basic statistics
Video editing
Book writing
Working with AI

School learning

It’s a good idea for me to stay on track with some of the subjects taught in high schools, so I can keep that option open. I plan to be working with Brilliant on math each week and also work on economics at Marginal University. I’m interested in statistics. I may pick up other courses as I go.

Projects

Projects will mostly be reports, but they can be anything. My first project will be a “State of the Animals” report on what I’ve learned in my podcast so far.

Another thing I’d like to do is go visit places where people are doing interesting things. Examples would be:

A lab-grown meat facility
An office where they trade stocks
A factory
A laboratory

Presentations & Videos

I have made plenty of presentations, and I expect to continue to make more. Here’s one I made for my summer, 2022 project:

Schedule: 2024

January 2 - March 1
Working with Jim Steele on a big “State of the Animals” report.
Weekly work on math and economics, maybe some statistics and physics

March 4 - April 13
Open

April 14 - May 20
Trip to Africa, make 4 videos

May 20 - June 15
Working on the videos and reporting on the trip.

What else? What do you think I should create as part of my education? Get in touch and let me know.