Tech-Neill-ogy #114 - 26 October 2025

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #114!

I got a little caught up and behind with some work travel. I’m finishing this week’s newsletter in the Dubai airport on my way back to São Paulo from the College Board India Forum in Mumbai, which took place over the past few days.

In any case, we are beginning to interview candidates for our third college counselor position here at Graded. Take a look and apply… or pass along to someone you think might be a good fit to join us!

Enjoy the rest of the newsletter!

https://www.edficacy.co/ - Tell them Jeff sent you!

Another great prompt from Zain Kahn on his Superhuman newsletter/blog:

I’m going to paste in a raw braindump of my thoughts. These will be messy, fragmented, half-formed ideas, sometimes repetitive.

Your job is to:

1. Organize everything into a clear structure or outline.
2. Preserve my original voice — don’t rewrite, polish, or rephrase into something more formal.
3. Group related ideas together under logical headings or categories.
4. Sequence them so they flow in a sensible order (e.g., from big picture → details, or problem → solution).
5. If something doesn’t fit anywhere, place it in a “Misc / Unsorted” section at the end.

Important: Do not delete or change my words. Don’t inject new ideas. Don’t improve the writing. Just structure it.

When you’re ready, say: “Paste your braindump now.”

Please, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].

That’s it for this week, but first, a non-tech article. I enjoyed this one quite a bit…

This passage sums up much of the piece:

Prestige in higher education has long favored the incumbents at the top of the rankings. But the more that families steer their decisions elsewhere, the less secure those incumbents will become.

Jeff Selingo

Anyway, best wishes for a great week! Happy counseling!

Jeff