# Active Primer

> Education innovation advisory, selected investments, and writing from Eric Lavin.

The site is a client-rendered React/Vite SPA, so HTML responses to fetcher tools may appear empty. The full text of every essay is available as raw markdown at the URLs below — agents should fetch the `.md` versions for content.

Contact: inquiries@activeprimer.vc

## Essays

- [Shop Class on Mars](https://activeprimer.vc/writing/shop-class-on-mars.md): CTE, reindustrialization, and the dignity of skilled work — why skills education is the missing training layer for reindustrialization, AI, and lifelong work.
- [The Applied Alphabet](https://activeprimer.vc/writing/applied-alphabet.md): AI literacy as psychological sovereignty — why AI literacy belongs beside reading, numeracy, and scientific literacy as basic infrastructure for agency.
- [Why Active Primer](https://activeprimer.vc/writing/active-primer.md): The Diamond Age, the history of media, and why Active Primer backs the next infrastructure of learning.
- [Pathways: What Happens After Shop Class](https://activeprimer.vc/writing/pathways-after-shop-class.md): If Shop Class on Mars is the training architecture, pathways are the deployment layer: employer trust, placement, advancement, and proof that skill turns into work.
- [Credentialing After the SAT](https://activeprimer.vc/writing/credentialing-after-sat.md): Assessment is the quiet lever in education. The next credentialing layer has to make capability portable, verifiable, and useful outside the institution that issued it.
- [How I Diligence Founders](https://activeprimer.vc/writing/how-i-diligence-founders.md): What I actually look for before investing: proximity to the problem, a sharp next proof, distribution realism, and the follow-up after the first conversation.

## Pages

- [Home](https://activeprimer.vc/): Overview of Active Primer, investment areas, and selected writing.
- [Ventures](https://activeprimer.vc/portfolio): Selected ventures around the four Active Primer areas of work.
- [Send a note](https://activeprimer.vc/share): Brief inquiry form for advisory, company, market, and education innovation questions.
- [Intake](https://activeprimer.vc/build): Conversational intake for advisory and education innovation questions.
- [Writing index](https://activeprimer.vc/writing): Listing of all essays.