Inside the Human Accelerator - by Aadil
substack.com · 5,905 words · saved by 1 readers
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…
related reading
- Inside the Human Accelerator - by Aadilsubstack.com
- i was half myself without you, now i feel so completesparc24jcs.substack.com
- i wish we’d grown up on the same advice - by vincent huangmindslice.substack.com
- i was half myself without you, now i feel so completesparcjcs.substack.com
- i was half myself without you, now i feel so completeweb.archive.org
- i was half myself without you, now i feel so completesparc24jcs.substack.com
- What I Worked Onpaulgraham.com
- Mmmmm. Yeah. Exactly. Right right righthipcityreg.substack.com
- choosing - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindmindslice.substack.com
- 192 Weeksnotes.ekzhang.com
- i was half myself without you, now i feel so completesparcjcs.substack.com
- What I Worked Onpaulgraham.com