Today I talk about the death of college.
College is a $200,000 scam and everyone knows it — left, right, parents, kids, dropouts, PhDs. You pay a fortune to write essays about s**t that doesn’t matter, rack up debt for a decade, and graduate into a job market that doesn’t give a damn about your degree. Then AI showed up….
It’s going to be a bloodbath and no one knows what to do.
I think the time is ripe to build a new system that replaces these relics.
After running month-long residencies for entrepreneurs out here in Arizona and Guatemala — places for training, personal and professional development, and real community - I’ve come to believe there’s an obviously better path. I’m calling it the residential academy system.
A residency is a house focused on a professional skill and a real ethos. In these residencies young people get the four things they actually need:
* affordable housing
* apprenticeship in a skill
* a community of peers
* Emphasis on personal growth.
This is nothing new.
The Renaissance had ateliers. The medieval world had guilds. The Freemasons built their entire culture around merging a trade with a deeper life together. We’re trying to build the modern version of that.
Examples: A woodworking house. A software house. A landscaping crew. A martial arts dojo that doubles as a residence. The master already runs the business, and the apprentices accelerate his output while learning his craft. Nobody pays tuition. The economics work because the work is real.
Watch the video for the full discussion.
If you want to build these with us, come join us at the Retribalize Academy.
Cheers,
Kristian
