He could have just gone to sovereign engineering…
nostr:npub1xeejes6lu4scttcmzytq5wfad3e6rljpmhc3snqs89xz3jjavfasnuz3mx is doing a 3 month in-person Network School now. Very interesting...
I expect to see a lot more of this sort of thing springing up over time.
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I definitely think that SovEng is another program in the same vein. https://www.synthesis.com is another which is doing really interesting things.