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2020

61% of students in class 5 are in class 1 level. Students are wasting 4 years, similar to the most engineering colleges in India.
Take the example, Rote learning is a problem. People recognize the problem but action is not taken on it. One infamous example is CCE for testing, the implemantation of CCE had a lot of problems.
He compares todays education system with a dead body, no matter how much ramifications are done to a dead body it’s not going to change, calls for a complete overhaul. Such ramifications assume that we have the capacity, but do we really?

We’re not training people to use their resources in the most effective way
We have a history class but not a future class
A framework of these: mindset, wisdom, self-understanding, how the wold works, fundamental skills, exponential technologies
Because of opportunity cost, we don’t burn a ₹2000 note, why do we burn our children’s potential then.

Backward Causality - If A does B and is successful, that means if we also do B we will be successful.
In military they have a lot of situational awareness, in business we dont have situational awareness ad we tend to copy others
Value chain: it describes “organization”
Evolution of companies over time: it describes “change”

As things evolve through competition they become efficient and allow higher order system to appear. eg. Electricity enabled TV

Gmail was able to give free storage because of the breakthrough in BigTable.
Free business model: We’ll figure out the monetization later.
For independent SWE your biz model becomes getting acquired by Google.
For P2P to work seamlessly in the browser we need additional components like a STUN server, signaling etc, and do this in a way that doesn’t introduce new centralized dependencies.
Operational Transformations still need a centralized server.
General principle of decentralization, we should move as much compute possible to the edges.