🎤 Quotable Quote
“The only way to master a skill is to do it again and again and again.”
— Jeremy Smith
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🎧 This Week’s Guest: Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith doesn't just question higher education.
He rebuilt it.
A multiple-exit startup founder and CEO of pega6, Jeremy believes we've accepted a strange reality for far too long.
Students spend four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars preparing for a career...
Then show up on day one with no idea how to do the job.
Jeremy saw it when he graduated.
He saw it in every new hire after him.
And eventually, he decided the problem wasn't the students.
It was the system.
💥 Leadership Rule of the Week
Hire great people. Then get out of their way.
Jeremy's leadership philosophy is wonderfully simple.
If you hire talented people only to micromanage them, you've wasted everyone's time.
Trust them.
Coach them.
Clear obstacles.
Then let them do what you hired them to do.
Great leaders don't create dependency.
They create ownership.
💡 Other Topics We Loved
• Why credentials are often confused with capability
• How experiential learning builds real mastery
• Why failure isn't the opposite of learning, it's the mechanism of learning
• How AI is reshaping what employers actually need
• Why "year one of employment" might be the best classroom ever created
• The surprising reason coding bootcamps often fall short
One of our favorite insights?
Jeremy's curriculum contains almost no lectures.
Students simply build.
Again.
And again.
And again.
Because you don't become a great product builder by reading about product building.
You become one by building products.
It's a deceptively simple idea.
But it's how nearly every meaningful skill in life is actually learned.
📺 Learn More
💼 Connect with Jeremy Smith on LinkedIn
🌐 Learn more about pega6:
https://pega6.com
🎓 Recent college graduate?
Explore the pega6 fellowship:
https://pega6fellowship.com
More leadership musings
🍪 Biscuits with the Boss:
Ask your team:
What's something you're good at today that you could never have learned from a textbook?
Then ask:
How could we create more opportunities for people to learn by doing instead of just learning by listening?
Sometimes experience is the curriculum.
🌎 This week in Here - There - Every F’ing where
Oh this is Marnie working in her (parked) car after a college application bootcamp prepping for a busy two weeks of here, there and everywhere. While she waits she is rebooking flights (ah summer weather!) to Kansas City. She and Nick and doing a keynote - then a virtual preso the next day in SC. And next week it is a college in MD and a couple stops in WI. All the letters! (Oh and we will have a special Season 4 treat for your next week :) )
Believe!
Nick & Marnie
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