Education

A pitiful powerball

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I’m pretty sure this is only the 2nd lottery ticket I’ve bought in my life. I’ll call it a “perfect storm” that drove me to it:

  1. The jackpot was over a billion dollars.
  2. I’d been drinking for at least 4 hours when at a party, someone said they were running out to buy one.
  3. The peer pressure and my weakened state made me a tag-along.

I’m happy to report that out of the winning numerals in the winning number:

we had a whopping one-number match, albeit in 2 different rows:

I’m happy to report that, because it will ensure I don’t get caught up in the moment again. 😂

Class dismissed (95-minute read)

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Alpha School is a teacherless, homeworkless, K-12 private school in Austin, Texas. Its students have been testing in the top 0.1% nationally.

They learn through self-directed coursework with AI tutoring apps for two hours a day, spending the other four hours of the school day in ‘workshops’ where they learn things like how to run an Airbnb or food truck, manage a brokerage account or Broadway production, or build a business or drone.

Alpha School’s new product, Timeback, is aimed at scaling Alpha School’s concepts and results and giving students their childhoods back. Timeback will be free to everyone once it’s released.

Read the article on Colossus.

Sources:
•  TLDR. (2025, August 22). TLDR Newsletter. https://a.tldrnewsletter.com/web-version?ep=1&lc=f5cb7e17-003d-11ed-9258-0241b9615763&p=37a7efb6-7f2c-11f0-9b29-8f76d000773e&pt=campaign&t=1755860278&s=645cc1494c311c683a1eaf5cf1f3dec62eb83ea56a9d9cceb7834938948a19b0
•  Class dismissed – Colossus. (2025, August 27). Colossus. https://joincolossus.com/article/joe-liemandt-class-dismissed