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Niels Hoven 🐮

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Niels Hoven 🐮

@NielsHoven

Founder and CEO of @MentavaInc. Building early literacy software for preschoolers. Help me bring back excellence in education. Father of 4.

Seattle, WA

mentava.com

Joined September 2007

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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Sep 20, 2024
The goal of modern education policy is not “helping every kid achieve their potential”, but rather “closing the gap” between high achievers and low achievers. Unfortunately, this means that many high-achieving students are intentionally slowed down, and held back to allow their
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Sep 11, 2024
Replying to @PrinceVogel
No community note, must be legit
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Dec 5, 2024
So basically people think there’s an unlimited supply of free, quality healthcare that we’re all being prevented from accessing by evil corporations?
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Dec 7, 2024
I was wrong. Thank you to all the commenters who took the time to inform me that there are many countries that have free unlimited healthcare because if I pay the government for something it’s free and if the government rations something it’s unlimited
Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Dec 5, 2024
So basically people think there’s an unlimited supply of free, quality healthcare that we’re all being prevented from accessing by evil corporations?
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Feb 3, 2025
The state dept’s advice for travel to Somalia is wild. It includes: -draft a will -discuss funeral wishes with loved ones -make a plan for custody of your children -pick a family member to be point of contact for hostage-takers -leave DNA samples with your medical provider
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Jan 15, 2025
They also noticed that kids in honors classes did better in life, but in this case the response was to get rid of honors classes in order to reduce inequality
Austen Allred
@Austen
Jan 15, 2025
They looked at the data and saw that college graduates, on average, did better in life. Failing to account for selection bias it was assumed that college was the solution to all of our problems. And, expensively, we learned that most of what mattered was the selection bias.
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Jun 16, 2024
TIL the reason Google Maps doesn’t have a “most scenic” walking route option is is force people to walk through low-income communities
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Oct 9, 2025
Imagine creating a product so bad that people would prefer to pay $40,000 to use a competitor rather than using yours for free That’s public school in a nutshell
Jane Coaston 🏔️
@janecoaston
Oct 6, 2025
1.) $40K a year school 2.) we, as a culture, need to get over weird school shit. you're not Morrissey. you cannot hold onto 'I had to ask to go to the bathroom in third grade' for your entire life and you certainly cannot make it your politics.
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Oct 4, 2025
It’s really quite simple, if you don’t want clowns like me charging $500/month to teach kids to read, then have schools do it instead I’m literally begging you to bankrupt my company
Political Punk
@actingliketommy
Oct 4, 2025
Replying to @Kazanjy and @NielsHoven
Zohran wants gifted people of color to be recognized too. Because they can’t afford $500/month for your clown buddy’s program.
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Oct 22, 2024
In SF there’s been a 10-year battle just to let 8th graders learn algebra. When we were doing the kindergarten lottery there, I asked every school how they would support a 4th grader who was ready for algebra. They all told me “no acceleration allowed”. In Palo Alto, one of the
Benjamin Riley
@benjaminjriley
Oct 22, 2024
Replying to @NielsHoven
Which school districts won't? You've invented a straw man and then covered yourself in straw.
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Nov 8, 2025
Replying to @callanable
He should also include a list of all the numbers they might need for the test
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Dec 26, 2024
“there’s no talent shortage, just double your offer and you’ll get the talent you want” “there’s no housing shortage, just double your offer and you’ll get the house you want” “there’s no food shortage, just double your offer and you’ll get the food you want”
Josiah Lippincott
@jlippincott
Dec 25, 2024
Elon, double your salary offers and you'll have the talent you want.
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Jul 18, 2025
Oh look, they figured out how to scale ideological conformity testing
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Niels Hoven 🐮
@NielsHoven
Dec 29, 2024
Q: how can you tell that someone has never actually been exposed to top-tier talent? A: they think the best companies in the world should be reaching out to recruit and train them based on a handful of mid-tier accomplishments that wouldn’t even pass a first-round hiring screen
Josiah Lippincott
@jlippincott
Dec 28, 2024
I had a rockstar application for college--near perfect SAT score, perfect AP scores on 7 different tests, Eagle Scout, congressional internship, varsity athlete, etc.--but I spent my summers doing manual labor for long hours (100+ a week @VivekGRamaswamy) because, hey, that was
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