As an addendum to Today We Choose Faces (a podcast with my father about alternative reality novels), I share the journey that led me to founding this site. https://today-we-choose-faces.transistor.fm/episodes/startup-fiction-the-backstory
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Story: Molly’s Life Thesis
Inspired by a Twitter discussion about how the success of the online #KhanWorldSchool would lead to demand for physical locations optimized for “everything else” students need. Molly had been sorely tempted to play it safe. Tell the Elders a story that would inspire them to keep her there. Play on their sympathy. … Story: Molly’sContinue reading “Story: Molly’s Life Thesis”
Socrates Repents (An Alternative “Apology”)
Where I go really old school to question the very foundations of Western civilization. His words troubled my heartIt made me question my deepest beliefsI felt my soul shriveling within meFor the God spoke truthI had ignored his wordsOr rather, sought to refute them Socrates Repents (An Alternative “Apology”) | Radically Happy
Retrospective Roundtable: THE GREAT DECENTRALIZATION OF 2020
My April 1st response to COVID-19: a science fiction story about an evil genius who wants to stop the pandemic… Making of a Revolutionary Ruckus April 1st, 2040 AD By Ernest Prabhakar and Colin Keeler INTRODUCTIONS TIM: Greetings, digital athletes! Today is … Retrospective Roundtable: THE GREAT DECENTRALIZATION OF 2020
Book Review: Quantum Philosophy and the End of Education
Originally posted on iHack, therefore iBlog:
Quantum Philosophy and the End of Education, by Roo Pavan (self-published) April 1st, 2019 This self-published book by a retired physicist turned tech millionaire has taken the education establishment by storm — and not in a good way. Few people had even heard of this book or its author,…
The Makers Triversity: A Father’s Education Dream
One of my first attempts at imagining the future, as a way to productively channel my frustration with the present. Written when my son (now fourteen) was only three years old. The following is a work of fiction, perhaps even of fantasy. I am no educator, and know nothing of the economics or mechanics ofContinue reading “The Makers Triversity: A Father’s Education Dream”
Startup Fiction 