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Bill Gates thinks AI will radically transform jobs, healthcare, and education. These are his predictions for the year ahead.

Tue, 12/19/2023 - 07:54

Tech Insider

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The kids I tutor attend schools with $50k tuition and summer in the Hamptons. Their parents still often forget to pay me on time.

Tue, 12/19/2023 - 07:17

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Photo from above of kids and a woman sitting around a table. Their heads are visible but not their faces. The woman is at the head and has dyed blonde hair with dark roots and wears glasses. She is typing on a computer and writing in a notebook with her right hand. To her left is a cell phone resting on a black notebook and behind her computer is a pencil case filled with colored pencils.

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Harvard early applications are down 17% from last year amid antisemitism row

Sat, 12/16/2023 - 08:06

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Harvard University campus — The campus of Harvard Business School and Harvard University.
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I taught my daughter at school, and it helped me learn something new about being a teacher

Thu, 12/14/2023 - 08:43

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Dad posing with daughter — The author (right) with his daughter.
Courtesy of the author

Parenting, Education, Essay, Parenting, parenting-freelancer, school, teacher

I've spent the past decade tutoring old money families in Hong Kong. There are 3 things I've learned about the world of big money in Asia.

Thu, 12/14/2023 - 01:36

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Jerome Barty-Taylor, 35, is the owner of a private education company in Hong Kong.
Jerome Barty-Taylor

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Bill Ackman says the doxxing trucks rolling around Harvard could teach its president, Claudine Gay, what it feels like to be a Jew on campus

Wed, 12/13/2023 - 21:55

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Bill Ackman (left) and Claudine Gay (right). — "Perhaps the doxxing trucks will give President Gay some perspective on what it is like to be Jewish and/or Israeli on the @Harvard campus," Ackman wrote on X on Wednesday.
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Elon Musk Is Launching a New University in Texas

Wed, 12/13/2023 - 17:05

Gizmodo

The legions of Elon Musk stans who have long dreamed of following in the unhinged billionaire’s footsteps will soon have an opportunity to learn directly from the master. Or, rather, they’ll have an opportunity to attend a university set up by Musk. And learn science. Or something. Maybe.