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Inside the Human Accelerator - by Aadil

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How an after-school program built me up and broke me down in ways I'm still processing 8 years later

Eight years ago, I did an after-school program for teenagers interested in tech and The Cognition Academy, aka TCA. Seemingly no one knows about TCA. People will tell you they went to Stanford within seconds of meeting you. Getting into Y Combinator or the Thiel Fellowships warrants an announcement post on Twitter and LinkedIn. Yet all my friends from TCA rarely mention they were part of it until you really get to know them. The program still runs today, and most kids in it will rep it proudly. But anyone who did it in the early days has a more complicated relationship with TCA. If anyone…

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