Austin Scholar

Austin Scholar #236: What a humanities education is actually about

& exercises you can run for your own humanities education

Oct 4 • Austin Scholar

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September 2026

Austin Scholar #235: 7 + 2 = ___ + 6

& what I’ve been thinking about…

Sep 27 • Austin Scholar

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Austin Scholar #234: Highlights from my talk at Harvard

& what I’ve been thinking about...

Sep 20 • Austin Scholar

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Austin Scholar #133: What it means to feel limitless

& how Alpha High Bootcamp gives students a taste of it

Sep 13 • Austin Scholar

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Austin Scholar #232: The neuroscience behind why Alpha works

& my take on the Huberman podcast on Alpha School

Sep 6 • Austin Scholar

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August 2026

Austin Scholar #231: How a month with Alpha World School taught me that kids want (and need) to do hard things

& why Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library works

Aug 30 • Austin Scholar

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Austin Scholar #230: “A” students aren’t actually “A”-level students

& what national exams reveal about how our education system is failing students

Aug 23 • Austin Scholar

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Austin Scholar #229: The antidote to a bad mood is gratitude

& simple ways to get your kid to stop complaining

Aug 16 • Austin Scholar

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Austin Scholar #228: Why learn to write in the age of AI?

& what I've been thinking about

Aug 9 • Austin Scholar

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Austin Scholar #227: AI is killing student writing. Here's how Alpha is using AI to save it

& the AlphaWrite walkthrough

Aug 2 • Austin Scholar

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July 2026

Austin Scholar #226: Christopher Nolan built the world’s most expensive advance organizer

& the Odyssey program

Jul 26 • Austin Scholar

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Austin Scholar #226: First think, then ChatGPT

& what I’ve been thinking about…

Jul 19 • Austin Scholar

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