NOTE (6/9/26):
Hello Visitor,
this form is slowly dying. i do not check it often. i only reply to people who both fill the form, then go hunt for my email, then follow up 2x "andy, did you get my note?"
i only reply to those people because such a hunting is what the form is screening for in the first place. are you
high agency already, such that our 30 minute conversation isn't just me telling you "be more high agency" over and over again? go to andytrattner.com and find me directly. this form is dead.
but do so knowing that the most high agency people will still fill out this form, anyways.
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also you can now try
play.computerfuture.xyz as a more interactive form, it might be fun... i'm productizing myself so
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NOTE (12/20/25): currently, grant funding is extremely scarce. I'd still love to meet you and receive many applications regardless. But after launching and
piloting with $107,000.00+ in grants distributed over the past couple months, it's looking more likely to take a full year or two of my own fundraising push to be able to really launch and run &U at the scale and volume I'd like to see this program chugging at. Follow
andys.blog to get a more in-depth sense of where things are at in my world, to know how you can most relevantly plug in.
ORIGINAL PROMPT BELOW: i'm going to leave this page up as an artifact. do feel free to submit the essays anyways (or not), i'll still read them and people have said they enjoyed this application process as a reflective exercise for their life goals (see the youtube interviews, etc). A newer and more lean version of chatting with me will probably be linked at andys.blog/zLevel or zaltiva.org somewhere thereabouts. Cheers and happy 2026!
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Try to be as concise as possible. The shorter the better!
Do not submit answers longer than 300-500 words, and don't stress about this too much either. The many questions are designed to give me multiple perspectives and angles on you and your background. Be reasonably thoughtful and convey to me your essence. I don't want to waste your time though, in case it's not a fit.
If I like your application, I will reach out and invite you to join me for an intro conversation on Capitalism Unlocked. If you haven't heard from us within 3 weeks, assume we decided not to proceed. Try again in a month or two with a new application!
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