john
@know
if you were rich how would you help people?
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Plan + seed 10,000 technical training pipelines targeting at rural/appalachia/middle america/southwest teens/20 somethings that would've previously taken CTE/automotive/blue collar type life paths - includes ex-prisoners. Program Characteristics are: - 2 year track - Software (Code foundations + Solo/Team Full stack Project focused curricula with an emphasis on AI tool utilization) + Hardware (Machining, manufacturing, Engineering Fundamentals) generalist program - 1 year extension option in specific functional areas - security, critical language study, likely driven by needs of the local area - Every program feeds directly into technical roles in existing local companies or nearby cities.
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john
@know
more people trained in this way, why?
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
So many reasons, but the biggest are: - Modern techl talent is aggressively concentrated on the coasts (specifically NYC/SF) which leads to a startupland hyperfixation on a small subset of problems that don't help most americans (consumer social), hyperfinancialization, and a B2B SAAS that either creates tools to sell to other startups or re-entrenches existing F100 companies and ignores any real, no shit problems that aren't "venture scale" - Technical + product talent drought outside of the coasts means chicken + egg problem for anyone good enough to compete with coast talent but doesn't want to leave their current ecosystem (like Ohio or w/e) so local companies can't really win even if their idea is spot on - Hardware + Software dual competency is underrated frontier of new class of interesting + useful problems imo (maybe @july can concur) - Most americans have been left out of this massive wealth transfer bc all of it is driven by investors and founders who all come from the same 20 universities
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Step 0 is getting more americans than just rich kids with the right parents access to the skills + tools used to create these companies
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