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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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Why Colleges and Universities Should be Scared of the On Deck Fellowship

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There’s been an emergence of “pre-accelorator” or “people accelorator” programs—experiences that you can buy your way into with cash, as opposed to potentially valuable future equity, that replicate the education and network provided by the likes of YCombinator. However, that side of a professional education is a commodity.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. via DumboNYC. 55 Washington Street.

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Universal Basic Income: An Introduction

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Here is the text of a speech I gave at the 72nd Annual NYU Labor Conference , which this year was on AI and Automation. If I have done my math correctly, the first Annual NYU Labor Conference took place in 1947 at what we can now recognize as the beginning of the golden era of the Industrial Age. Wouldn’t that result in inflation?

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Confessions of a Privileged White Male and Former Conservative

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What he also did, unlike Giuliani, was advocate civilian review boards and neighborhood policing where cops worked together with their communities as partners. I didn't bother looking into the policies that tied into abortion, like women's health, contraception availability, sex education, etc. I made NYU, but couldn't afford to go.