Tag: education

• Why Games Work: Emotional Arcs, Flow States, and Meaningful Play (with Jesse Schell)

  April 30, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/WMFoBgp Why are games so deeply engaging? What psychological principles make game design such a powerful tool for shaping attention, emotion, and learning? Game design is not a niche… more ›

• China’s AI Education Experiment – by Lily Ottinger

  April 6, 2026

  Pilot schools in China are already using AI to grade children’s artwork, monitor their facial expressions during lectures, and screen them for psychological problems — and the Ministry of Education… more ›

• You Are Not a Function

  April 2, 2026

  A tree does not exist in order to produce lumber. You can make lumber from it, and good lumber is nothing to sneer at. But if you look at a… more ›

• The big new way to get rich

  April 24, 2024

  Want to make a fortune? Target bored young men who want to make a fortune. If you want to gamble in America these days, you have more ways to put… more ›

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  September 26, 2021

  Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d… more ›

• Cardano Africa

  May 3, 2021

  Input Output, the technology company that created Cardano and Atala PRISM, has been working on the African continent since 2017. Charles Hoskinson, CEO, reflects on the road so far and his… more ›

• Live, Social, and Shoppable: The Future of Video

  December 11, 2020

    Social Strikes Back is a series exploring the next generation of social networks and how they’re shaping the future of consumer tech. See more at a16z.com/social-strikes-back. Over the past year, it’s… more ›

• Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy

  July 13, 2020

  Social media platforms have profoundly transformed cultural production, in part by restructuring the terms by which culture is distributed and paid for. In this article, we examine the YouTube Partner… more ›

• The Passion Economy and the Future of Work

  October 13, 2019

  The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more than $500,000 a year from reader subscriptions. The top content creator on Podia, a platform for video courses and… more ›

• Camera Above the Classroom

  April 23, 2019

  BEIJING — Jason Todd first discovered his school’s secret on the internet. It was late September 2018, less than a month after high school had started. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003759/camera-above-the-classroom more ›