# self-directed (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover self-directed. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Access Premium: Splitting a $10,000 Allocation Across Robinhood's Two Private-Market Funds](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/the-access-premium-splitting-a-10000) _2026-08-19 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ $RVI trades at a ~14% premium to what it actually holds. $RVII still trades below its own IPO price. One of those is a better place to start, and the gap is the entire lesson. ## [Eleven Miles from Palo Alto](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/eleven-miles-from-palo-alto) _2026-08-16 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ A Daly City family spent forty years watching Silicon Valley happen from the doorstep. When Robinhood's RVI finally opened the door, the youngest one walked through — and paid for the privilege. ## [The Plumbing Premium: Tranching a $10,000 Allocation Into Travel's Cheapest Platform Bet](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/the-plumbing-premium-tranching-a) _2026-08-12 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Expedia just posted its fifth straight beat-and-raise quarter and still trades at the cheapest forward multiple in its peer group — here's how we're building into the digest, not the chase. ## [Nobody Opened a Map](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/nobody-opened-a-map) _2026-08-09 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ A Lake Tahoe bakery, a wedding cake, and the quiet argument over who — or what — finds you next. This is a Sunday Dinner story about Expedia Group ($EXPE). ## [The Fear Discount: Tranching $10,000 Into Reddit's Beat-and-Raise Selloff](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/the-fear-discount-tranching-10000) _2026-08-05 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ A quarter that beat every number on the sheet still got sold 21% in a day. That gap between "the results" and "the reaction" is exactly where a self-directed investor is supposed to be looking. ## [Ask Around Anyway](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/ask-around-anyway) _2026-08-03 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ A family's fight the night before a swim meet is really about Reddit ($RDDT) — and whether the fastest answer is always the right one. (Part 1 of 2.) ## [Three Questions for the Future of Education](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/three-questions-for-the-future-of) _2026-07-31 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Public education is at a real crossroads. Three hard questions will decide whether a flourishing vision reshapes it or stays on the margins. ## [The Deal-Risk Discount: Tranching a $10,000 Allocation into Precision Oncology's MRD Land Grab](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/the-deal-risk-discount-tranching) _2026-07-29 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Tempus AI is down 31% on a merger scare four days before earnings — the self-directed case for waiting on clarity, not chasing the panic. ## [Get the Real Number First](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/get-the-real-number-first) _2026-07-27 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ A Sunday dinner in Columbus, a scan that came back clean, and the same bet Tempus AI (TEM) just made on $1.5 billion worth of hope. ## [The Things Only a Mortal Can Say](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/the-things-only-a-mortal-can-say) _2026-07-24 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ A chat with Fable on life, meaning, and purpose in the age of AI ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OZkDEfCpYLrR) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [Schools Don't Just Fail the Kids Who Struggle. They Are Run by the Kids Who Didn't.](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/survivorship-bias-in-education) _2026-07-21 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ An open letter to every educator who loved school, written on behalf of those who didn't ## [We Mapped the WEF's Top 10 Emerging Technologies to 6 Investable Sectors. Only One Was Actually Cheap.](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/we-mapped-the-wefs-top-10-emerging) _2026-07-21 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ We ranked six sectors from this year's Davos-adjacent tech research. Only water infrastructure (PHO, XYL, AWK, WMS, PNR) came out cheap. ## [Redefining Self-Directed Learning](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/redefining-self-directed-learning) _2026-07-16 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ This is the fifth in a six-part series on what education would look like if it were designed for human flourishing. ## [The Bureaucracy Battlefield: The Hidden Clearances Shaping the Future of $BFLY](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/the-bureaucracy-battlefield-the-hidden) _2026-07-16 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Why the market is obsessed with stock charts, while the smart money tracks FDA pathways, CMS coding, and global red tape. (See Tables below) ## [Schools Don’t Just Limit Unstructured Time for Kids. They Teach Children Their Hours Belong to Someone Else.](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/unstructured-time-for-kids) _2026-07-14 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ Time is the only thing you cannot make more of. Children who grow up never owning theirs become adults who never will either — and parents are running out of summers to do anything about it. ## [On Death](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/on-death) _2026-07-09 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ A Week in Oaxaca ## [The Platform Pivot: Tranching a $10,000 Allocation into the Future of Bedside Imaging](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/the-platform-pivot-tranching-a-10000) _2026-07-09 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ How we are deploying a self-directed growth allocation into a high-margin medical AI transition—without chasing the parabolic hype. ## [Schools Don't Just Fail to Teach Cooperation. They Teach Children That a Classmate's Success Is a Threat to Their Own.](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/competition-in-schools-cooperative-learning) _2026-07-07 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ The real lesson behind every gold star, every honor roll, and every ranked list of names on the wall ## [The Reason You Haven't Pulled Your Kids From School Has Nothing to Do With Money](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/self-directed-education-isnt-a-privilege) _2026-06-30 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ You were told the alternative is too expensive. No one told you what conventional school actually costs, or who has been paying for it all along. ## [Design Principles for Flourishing Schools](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/design-principles-for-flourishing) _2026-06-29 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ This is the fourth in a six-part series on what education would look like if it were designed for human flourishing. ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CTJZ8WHVLjV7) _2026-06-29 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [What If the Fight to Fix School Was Never the Right Fight?](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/what-we-can-build-instead-with-self-directed-education) _2026-06-23 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ Children do not need to be managed into becoming capable. Here is what happens when they are trusted instead. ## [Widow’s Bay and the Two Angles on the Same Wound](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/widows-bay-and-the-two-angles-on) _2026-06-22 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ The best show of 2026 is a horror-comedy about a dying town. ## [SDL Roundup](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/sdl-roundup) _2026-06-18 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ I’m going to take a brief pause from my series on education for human flourishing (part four will release in the next week or so) and share a couple of articles published in other outlets. ## [For Most of Human History, No One Had to Teach a Child How to Learn](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/how-children-learned-before-school-existed) _2026-06-16 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ For most of human history, no child needed lessons in how to learn. Then an institution built a fence around something that used to belong to everyone, and you have been living inside it ever since. ## [We Stopped Cultivating Wisdom](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/we-stopped-cultivating-wisdom) _2026-06-11 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ This is the third in a six-part series on what education would look like if it were designed for human flourishing. ## [The School System Isn't Broken. It Was Built This Way.](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/schools-dont-fail-to-change-society-they-prevent-it) _2026-06-09 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ Every reform movement that has ever tried to fix conventional schooling accepted the premise that the institution was worth saving. That is exactly what it was designed to make them believe. ## [Why the Best Teachers Are Suffering the Most, and What the Research Actually Says](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/good-teachers-dont-hurt-children) _2026-06-02 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ The most devoted teachers in America are also its most demoralized. Doris Santoro’s research reveals exactly why. ## [The Crack in the World](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/the-crack-in-the-world) _2026-05-31 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ On Outer Dark and Song of Solomon ## [Your Child Was Born Burning to Figure Things Out. School Taught Them to Stop.](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/your-child-was-born-knowing-how-to-learn) _2026-05-26 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ Inside Self-Directed Education centers, children learn everything school says it wants for them. The reason why will reframe everything. ## [What If Schools Were Built for Flourishing?](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/what-if-schools-were-built-for-flourishing) _2026-05-26 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Dr. Caleb Collier is the Director of the Institute for Self-Directed Learning and Ambassador for the National Hybrid Schools Project at Kennesaw State University. ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/d4hfY6K01k0J) _2026-05-26 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Why I Built a Page on Our Website to Tell Some Parents We're Not Right for Them](https://katypurviance.substack.com/p/freedom-heals) _2026-05-19 · Katy Purviance · The Joy of Learning_ Why I Built a Page on Our Website to Tell Parents We Might Not Be Right for Them ## [The View from 250 Miles Up](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/the-view-from-250-miles-up) _2026-05-17 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ A review of Orbital by Samantha Harvey ## [Schools Aren't Failing. That's the Problem.](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/schools-arent-failing-thats-the-problem) _2026-05-12 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ This is the first in a six-part series on what education would look like if it were designed for human flourishing. ## [Introducing THE GAP](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/introducing-the-gap) _2026-05-08 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ A Newsletter ## [So Where Are We Now? Malcolm Knowles, the Field of SDL, and the Conversation We Still Need to Have](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/so-where-are-we-now-malcolm-knowles) _2026-04-29 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Part Nine of "A Brief History of Self-Directed Learning" ## [Throwing Away School: Ivan Illich, John Holt, and the Case Against Compulsory Education](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/throwing-away-school-ivan-illich) _2026-04-20 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Part Eight of "A Brief History of Self-Directed Learning" ## [The Schools That Said No: Summerhill, Sudbury Valley, and the Freedom Schools That Changed America](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/the-schools-that-said-no-summerhill) _2026-04-15 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Part Seven of "A Brief History of Self-Directed Learning" ## [Learning by Doing: John Dewey, Maria Montessori, and the Progressive Education Revolution](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/learning-by-doing-john-dewey-maria) _2026-04-08 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Part 6 of "A Brief History of Self-Directed Learning" ## [Three Ways Americans Learned on Their Own Terms: Horace Mann, the Chautauqua Movement, and W.E.B. Du Bois](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/three-ways-americans-learned-on-their) _2026-03-31 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Part 5 of "A Brief History of Self-Directed Learning" ## [What If We Trusted Children? Rousseau, Pestalozzi, and Froebel on Nature, Play, and the Radical Act of Getting Out of the Way](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/what-if-we-trusted-children-rousseau) _2026-03-24 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Part 4 of "A Brief History of Self-Directed Learning" ## [Before Schools: What Artisans and Apprentices Can Teach Us About Learning](https://calebpattoncollier.substack.com/p/before-schools-what-artisans-and) _2026-03-16 · Caleb Patton Collier · Caleb Patton Collier_ Part 3 of "A Brief History of Self-Directed Learning" ## [Daily Strike | March 4 | AVGO, VEEV, ABUS, CTMX](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-march-4-avgo-veev-abus) _2026-03-04 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution. ## [Daily Strike | March 3 | AZO, ACLX, TBPH](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-march-3-azo-aclx-tbph) _2026-03-03 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution. ## [Daily Strike | February 27 | FDMT, AMRX, BTSG](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-february-27-fdmt-amrx) _2026-02-27 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution. ## [Daily Strike | February 25 | CRWV, ADSK, DUOL, COMP, CCCC](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-february-25-crwv-adsk) _2026-02-25 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution. ## [Daily Strike | February 24 | HD, TEM, AHCO, PRCT](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-february-24-hd-tem-ahco) _2026-02-24 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution. ## [Daily Strike | February 23 | KTOS, HIMS](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-february-23-ktos-hims) _2026-02-23 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution. ## [Daily Strike | February 19 | VFS, LZ, NTLA](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-february-19-vfs-lz-ntla) _2026-02-19 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution. ## [Daily Strike | February 18 | BKNG, CVNA, DASH, FVRR, MCW](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-february-18-bkng-cvna) _2026-02-18 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution. ## [Daily Strike | February 17 | PANW, CDNS, ETOR, TOL, KRYS](https://24hourjournal.substack.com/p/daily-strike-february-17-panw-cdns) _2026-02-17 · Dennis Wisco · 24Hour Journal_ Daily earnings intel: High-signal volatility setups and hidden gems, filtered for professional execution.