Branson Pfiester retweeted
Day 1 of making custom clash cards with @LiamLenhardt using Astra
In celebration of spooky month, I made Micheal Myers
We'll be releasing the game soon‼️
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
We’re giving away FREE tickets to FocusFest, taking place October 10 on the Universal Lot. Just repost to enter!
A full day of screenings with special guests, exclusive merchandise, and interactive activations.
• Elsinore
• Sense & Sensibility
• Nosferatu
• Obsession
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
I got the angriest reply to a cold email today.
I emailed a business owner some things that could be improved on his website.
He seemed to be a bit upset about the things that I pointed out.
He actually built the website himself.
I asked him to elaborate on what parts of the feedback were inaccurate.
No response.
This taught me something valuable about cold-emailing.
The lesson is communicating how you can provide value while also protecting the person's value.
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
Something we teach at Founders and Alpha is that a great product acts like a magnet.
It attracts the right customers.
And repels the wrong ones.
Sometimes aggressively!
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That's a wrap on the Apple event.
Here is what they released:
• iPhone Duo: Apple's first folding phone
• iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max: new variable aperture camera and the A20 Pro chip
• AirPods 5
• Apple Watch Series 12
Which one are you getting?
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
In recent weeks, the high school students have been participating in the Alpha High School Boot Camp, designed to foster 18 different life skills as they start their school year. You can learn more about it here. alphahigh.school/bootcamp/
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I am a 14 y/o who uses technology every single day for my education.
Nearly every time I let someone hear that, they think I have a robot on my screen talking me through every subject.
At @Alphaschool today, we did our regular 3 hours of academics through learning apps, similar to homeschool programs, but they are backed by AI so we have personalized plans for us made.
We then did a heart monitor test, our parents submitted videos giving us feedback, if your heart rate raises by 10% you fail.
This was teach us taking feedback shouldn't make our heart race, because being able to take feedback without taking it to heart benefits you a lot when developing a product.
We learn what's important, and thats what differentiats us.
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
I just generated this 3D scene with an open-source local model and it's just as good as the top frontier models.
In one very basic prompt it implemented full lighting, effects, models, and surroundings.
Open source beat frontier models in cost and capabilities.
Except I'm LYING.
This scene was generated in one prompt with Claude Sonnet 5, which is NOT a frontier model. In fact, its not even close.
People will give misleading benchmarks and tests to hype up new models, but a lot of the time it's just that, hype.
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
Today, I’m honored to join Andrew Huberman for a deep conversation about how children learn and how we can redesign school around what science makes possible.
Just one year ago, I recorded my first podcast with @patrick_oshag on Invest Like the Best.
Since then, word of mouth and demand for Alpha School have exploded.
We’re now bringing Alpha to 50 communities across the country, each made possible by founding families determined to build a better education for their children.
The new Huberman Lab episode is out: How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt
0:00 Joe Liemandt
3:16 History of Traditional Classroom Model; Education Milestones
8:08 Sponsors: David & Lingo
10:25 Alpha School, High Standards & Support
22:33 Effective Support, Academics vs Athletics; Homeschooling
30:03 AI, Individualized Learning & Mastery
34:31 Teacher Education, Standardized Tests, Role of School
40:52 Sponsors: AG1 & Helix Sleep
43:42 AI, Scaffolding Learning, Mastery; Working Memory & Fluency
52:41 Working Memory, Focus; Gifted Kids
1:00:30 Basics Mastery, Grade Level Catch-Up, Individualized AI Lessons & Pace
1:06:57 Sponsor: LMNT
1:08:17 Shame, Motivation, Growth Rate; Overcoming Mental Blocks & Paying Kids
1:20:55 Suffering & Motivation, Kids Goals, Sports; Doing Hard Things
1:31:21 Founders High School, Life Skills; Kids' Goals
1:42:44 Reimagining Classroom Education
1:47:21 Importance of Building & Creating, AI & Humanity
1:58:04 Science & Redesigning Experiments, Kids' Interest-Led Projects
2:05:26 Huberman Lab Live Events
2:06:14 Learning Predictors, Gender, Income; Redesigning the School System
2:18:32 Success; Sports Academy, Alpha School Expansion
2:28:36 Acknowledgements
2:31:07 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
Includes paid partnerships.
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
New poster for David Ayer's ‘HEART OF THE BEAST’, starring Brad Pitt.
The survival thriller follows a former soldier & his dog who battle for survival after a plane crash in the wilderness.
In theaters on September 25.
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
🚨🇦🇷 BREAKING NEWS: LIONEL MESSI RETIRES FROM INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL.
Messi will not play for Argentina national team anymore.
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
out of 554,000 students, only 70,000 earned a 5 on the AP US History test
I only have a week to perform at the same level for unit 1...😭
who thinks I can do it?
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
First poster for ‘DAYS OF THUNDER 2’.
• Starring Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway
• In theaters on June 2, 2028
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
Day 17/42
Today at Alpha we worked on building a “Brain Lift” instead of just letting AI do the thinking for us.
The process is simple: find real facts, summarize them in your own words, make connections, and then build your own point of view from what you learned.
AI can help you learn faster, but if it does all the thinking for you, you’re not actually getting smarter. The goal is to use AI as a tool to sharpen your thinking, not replace it.
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Motivation can be the difference between accomplishing and failing at something.
At @Alphaschool we have 1-on-1 meetings with our guides.
In these meetings we set goals, talk about passions, and more.
I'm so grateful for my guide!
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
I spent this week learning that people will electrocute a stranger if someone in a lab coat tells them to.
That's the Milgram obedience experiment, and it's one of the wildest studies in social psychology.
I went in knowing none of this a week ago. Just took Khan Academy's actual MCAT unit test on it and scored 100%.
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
"Working hard or hardly working?" — an old guide of mine used to say that, because his dad used to say it to him.
That's the kind of connection we build with our guides at @Alphaschool . They're not temporary. They're long-lasting, and they leave a real impact on students' lives.
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Branson Pfiester retweeted
First look at seamless character swap in GTA 6.
CharlieIntel
Community note
This clip shows switching when characters are apart, with a GTA 5-style map zoom. Instant swaps occur when together, like in a car.
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