Ben Averbook Podcast
Ben Averbook Podcast
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Conversations about AI, technology, entrepreneurship, creativity, and the journey of building impactful things. Ben is an entrepreneur, creator, and learner, exploring the stories and strategies of innovators actively shaping the future. www.benaverbook.com
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Explores themes of entrepreneurship, creativity, and technology, with episodes focusing on user experience design, AI integration in products, and the entrepreneurial journey, such as the interview with Henry Modisett discussing the philosophy of AI in product design.
Conversations about AI, technology, entrepreneurship, creativity, and the journey of building impactful things. Ben is an entrepreneur, creator, and learner, exploring the stories and strategies of innovators actively shaping the future.
Dr. David Ruth, Dean of STEM at the University of Austin, joins the podcast to detail UATX’s mission to rebuild higher education around the fearless pursuit of truth.
We explore their first-principles approach to curriculum (integrating “Homer and Python”), their controversial merit-based admissions, and why they believe traditional universities are failing. Dr. Ruth’s commitment to open inquiry and empirical rigor offers a compelling vision for the future of universities.
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) – Intro / Dr. Ruth’s Journey
(00:03:10) – Why Start UATX? (00:07:25) – What Universities Get Right
(00:12:30) – College vs. Working Right Away
(00:19:08) – UATX STEM Vision / Homer & Python
(00:24:07) – Building the STEM Program
(00:33:51) – Ideology vs. Empiricism in Science
(00:43:44) – Merit-Based Admissions
(00:50:31) – Student Qualities (Curiosity & Humility)
(00:56:05) – UATX Value & Network
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