2025-08-20
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Hello, David.
Thank you for doing this.
Thank you all for coming.
I'd like to get your sense of where the world is today, conceptually speaking.
So let's start with young people today.
So there's plenty of evidence that younger people today,
maybe they have shorter attention spans, feel alienated, higher rates of depression.
At the same time, it's almost impossible to get into a top school.
You can be valedictorian from your school in Maryland, straight A's, perfect SAT scores,
and maybe it's hard to even get into a good state school.
How can both of these things be true at the same time?
Like what's the model going on here?
So first,
one of the things I've learned about young people is they love it when people of our generation generalize about them.
They just think that's fantastic.