What I'm building
Education is a lagging indicator. Assessment is the leading cause of change. The SAT shaped 70 years of American schooling. The bar exam shapes law school. Leetcode, completely unofficially, reshaped CS education worldwide. Set the measurement, and the teaching reorganizes around it.
I've spent the last year building in education and hiring, five products deep. An AI tutor. Alphafeed, which turned books into interactive podcasts. A mentored cohort for high school students. AI assessments for AI-age roles, where six students took work trials and five SF startups requested their reports.
Each one taught me the same lesson from a different angle: the way to change education is not better content or better teaching. People study to get into IIT or Stanford or Jane Street, not to learn for its own sake. If you want to change what people learn, you have to control the outcome they're studying for. Be outcome first, and the learning follows.
That's Polymath Society. Your ChatGPT and your AI tools know you much better than your LinkedIn does or your job experience does. I use that signal to find exceptional people and directly get them opportunities, so that people are measured correctly. Once people are measured correctly, the free markets will organize around that to teach them better, and actual competence replaces faked credentials.
The first tool is live on npm. It reads your local AI agent logs, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and reflects back how you actually work: patterns, parallelism, flow, throughput. Everything runs on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded unless you explicitly choose to share a report.
Read more at polymathsociety.us.