Don’t Follow The Majority

Speaking heart-to-heart...

Every generation has a handful of people who didn’t follow the crowd — and because they didn’t, the world changed.

Think about it.

• Nikola Tesla didn’t follow the majority when everyone believed energy and power should be controlled, closed, and monetized by a few big companies. He imagined open energy — ideas so ahead of their time that even today we’re still only beginning to understand the possibilities.
• Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t follow the majority when the whole financial world thought money must be controlled by banks and governments. Satoshi built open money — Bitcoin — a protocol and system anyone can use without asking permission. And the contributors too don't follow the majority.
• Fiatjaf didn’t follow the majority assumption that social media must be closed, data-extractive, and centralized. He built open social media — Nostr, protocol that give users control over their own voices and communities.
• Jack Dorsey didn’t follow the majority when the internet’s messaging and communications were trapped inside silos. He pushed forward open chat — protocols that let anyone build messaging without gatekeepers.
• Richard Stallman didn’t follow the majority to invent free software (GNU), insisting that users deserve freedom over their own computers.
• Linus Torvalds didn’t follow the majority to invent an open operating system (Linux) that anyone can use, study, and improve.
• Tim Berners-Lee didn’t follow the majority to invent the open web, refusing to patent it so the internet could belong to everyone.
• Bram Cohen didn’t follow the majority to invent peer-to-peer sharing (BitTorrent), letting people distribute data without central servers.
• Julian Assange didn’t follow the majority to build open publishing (WikiLeaks), challenging information gatekeepers.
• Edward Snowden didn’t follow the majority to expose mass surveillance, choosing truth over comfort.
• Hal Finney didn’t follow the majority to support and improve open money when Bitcoin was still just an idea.
• Adam Back didn’t follow the majority to invent proof-of-work (Hashcash), laying groundwork for Bitcoin.
• Nym developers didn’t follow the majority to build open privacy infrastructure instead of surveillance-based networks.
• Open-source educators didn’t follow the majority to creates free and open learning resources, refusing to lock knowledge behind paywalls.

These people weren’t safe. They weren’t “normal.” They didn’t follows the majority. But because they believed something could be better — more open, more human, more liberating — they acted.

Why This Matters More Than Ever

Right now, most people follows the majority because it’s comfortable, accepted, and rarely questioned.

• Go to school.
• Get a job.
• Follow the “rules.”
• Don’t shake the boat.

But what if education itself need shaking?

What if our kids are being taught to follow the majority — memorize, repeat, conform — instead of think for themself, create, innovate?

That’s where the Study Hubs comes in

Study Hubs: A Place to Think Different

Study Hubs isn’t just another classroom. It’s space — physical and intellectual — where learners:

• Explore ideas instead of memorize them
• Build knowledge instead of absorb it
• Ask why instead of just what
• Collaborate instead of compete

It’s a place where young minds are encouraged to not follow the majority — to question, create, and make things better.

That’s exactly the mindset Tesla had. That’s the mindset Satoshi had. That’s the mindset that built open energy, open money, open social tools, and open chat.

And that’s the mindset we need today’s students to have.

Heart-to-Heart: The Majority Isn’t Always Right

Look around. Most systems today — education, money, media — were built for another era. They weren’t designed for a world that’s global, interconnected, and digital.

Yet we still run them the same old way:

• More tests.
• More conformity.
• More “follow what others do.”

But the world needs problem solvers, builders, thinkers, and creators — not just followers.

Study Hubs gives learners a chance to be exactly that. Not followers — leaders.

And when tomorrow’s innovators grows up in spaces that encourage curiosity instead of punish deviation, they’ll be the ones who solves the big problems — just like Tesla, Satoshi, Fiatjaf, and Jack Dorsey did.

In the End…

Following the majority only gets you what the majority already has.

But not following it?
That’s how we invent open energy.
That’s how we invent open money.
That’s how we invent open social spaces.
And that’s how we change the world.

Study Hubs isn’t a trend. It’s a gateway — a place where the next generation learns to think differently, question boldly, and build freely.

Because the world don’t need more people who follows.
It needs more people who lead.

Thank you.