On January 29th, 2020, as Tomiwa prepared to graduate, he began to plan his budget for post-grad life. To his surprise, he discovered that he had accumulated $64,000 in debt. This realization made him question how we, as a society, have allowed the average student to begin their career 28k behind the starting line. Determined to address this issue, Tomiwa decided to take on the challenge himself and founded Atila, a platform designed to help students secure scholarships and mentorship opportunities.
Tomiwa is not only a software engineer, but also a blogger, writer, and avid reader. His diverse interests and skills make him a true polymath. He is particularly passionate about education and the future of AI, as well as the potential of blockchain technology. In this podcast, we'll explore a wide range of topics, including how Tomiwa used ChatGPT to create a crypto wallet and the recent controversies surrounding twitter's banning policies.
Here are the topics that we've covered:
- Writing a Crypto Wallet using ChatGPT
- Is ChatGPT good?
- Shadow Banning & Heaven Banning
- Why Bots are actually Better than Human
- The real reason that Stack Overflow Banned ChatGPT
- The proper way to use ChatGPT to LEARN
- School is Killing people's curiosity
- School is a monopoly, let the market decide the Tuition
- Writing is Thinking
- Starting of Atila
- Education should be affordable for everyone
- Everyone can benefit from a 1-hour conversation with someone else
- How is Crypto helping Ed-Tech Start-up
- The bottleneck of Crypto mass adoption
- Book Recommendations
- Advice for Young Founders
Here's the link that was mentioned in our conversation:
- Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
- Ethan Mollick’s Tweet on how professors can cheat by Grading & Commenting with ChatGPT
- AI-powered subreddit
- Why do StackOverflow moderators need to discriminate against AI chatbots
- The Education Freedom Program (EduFree)
- Story of Atila: Democratizing Financial Freedom for Education
- International Students Using GoFundMe to pay their Tuition
Book Recommendations by Tomiwa:
- The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
- Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
- The Elephant in the Brain by Robin Hanson
- Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger
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