Give Them What They Want

 

Humans need food nothing and shelter. Most humans want the rest of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.  If you are selling these wants, do people need to get what they want from you? It is easier to sell superficial wants. There also markets for intellectual products. Your people, your customers are out there. Is it worth the time, money, and effort to find them?

Marc Sims 

Chicago

10,000 Maniacs - Candy Everybody Wants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jORFcH5uAjM

 

 

The best way to make a hit is to build something for the smallest viable audience and make it so good that people tell their peers.  

Seth Godin 

Targeted UBI

 

 

The billionaires are doing ok. The millionaires are doing ok. Working class and impoverished Americans are in the lurch. 

The United States needs a targeted universal basic income for people who really need financial support.  Many basic jobs don’t pay a living wage and many Americans will never earn enough money from a low wage job. Supplementing worker incomes when they need extra money stabilizes families and neighborhoods.

Marc Sims 

Chicago

Every industry is going to change this decade. Not a little bit not a few every industry every single industry is going to be reinvented.

"The Future Is Faster Than You Think:" Peter Diamandis + Steven Kotler

https://youtu.be/2wNwwVEe6GY?t=1897

 

College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap

The problem of students not being ready for college is as old as American higher education.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2016/08/18/remedial-education-trap

 

The dirty little secret about education writ large; relative performance though out life tends to be remarkably static.

A 3rd grade reading level is a strong predictor of college completion.

Clip by Marc Sims.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4616997/schools-college

Education Completion

 

Education Completion:

Completing high school, college, or other types of post secondary education requires a good primary education.  Here are just a few ideas that are lying around.

The dirty little secret about education writ large; relative performance throughout life tends to be remarkably static.

A 3rd grade reading level is a strong predictor of college completion.

Clip by Marc Sims.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4616997/schools-college

 

Why Millions Of Kids Can't Read And What Better Teaching Can Do About It

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/677722959/why-millions-of-kids-cant-read-and-what-better-teaching-can-do-about-it

 

College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap

The problem of students not being ready for college is as old as American higher education.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2016/08/18/remedial-education-trap

 

'First-Gen' Proud: Campuses Are Celebrating An Overlooked Group. But Is That Enough?

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/08/776896753/first-gen-proud-campuses-are-celebrating-an-overlooked-group-but-is-that-enough

 

'Losing A Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets For 1st-Year Students

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/17/925831720/losing-a-generation-fall-college-enrollment-plummets-for-first-year-students

 

Marc Sims

Host Just A Few Questions

https://anchor.fm/marc-sims

marcsimschicago@gmail.com

Education & Crime

 

They are neighborhoods in Chicago where only a few teens and young men that destabilized the entire neighborhood.  I guess these young men struggled to read, write, and complete their homework assignments in elementary school. I'm also assuming these teens and young men had adverse childhood experiences.

Education experts know what is needed to improve educational outcomes for low income students. Chicago residents with power and resources have to be persuaded to help reform the bureaucracy that prevents innovation in public education.

Marc Sims

Chicago

 https://www.chicagolandchamber.org

 https://www.chicago.gov/city/en.html

 https://www.cpsboe.org

 https://www.cps.edu

 https://www.ctulocal1.org

 https://home.chicagopolice.org