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Explaining Lambda School's Success: Career Legibility
Austen Allred was homeless for 3 months when he was fundraising for his first company Grasswire, a media platform that lets everyone create collaborative news reports by voting on and fact-checking social media content in real-time. Austen was so broke that he couldn't afford to rent a place in Silicon Valley to meet with investors.
To still have a
... See moreLeo Luo • 🏫 Lambda School
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Being particularly successful in a role also gives you more connections, credentials, and credibility, increasing your career capital and leverage.
William MacAskill • What We Owe the Future
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Solving the problem of assembling a good team: When I became the CEO of a new company, every founder I talked to had the same warning: hiring is the hardest thing you will do... Currently, we use approximations: we look at the school a person attended, the jobs they’ve held and the length of time they were there. We might take a look at two or thre... See more
Adam Davidson • Real world problems that web3 could solve--at least for me
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But here too, relevance depends on the sociology of the current moment. For example, on Behance, the online creative community, school and location are featured prominently as filters, implying that where you live and where you went to school is an important indicator of the quality of your design portfolio. In a world where talent is being decoupl... See more
Sari Azout • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
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Consider a manager selecting between two applicants, the first with a Harvard degree and the second without. Even if the manager has learned that the second applicant is more qualified for the job, in many workplaces it would be more prudent for the manager to choose the first applicant. If the manager passes up the first applicant in favor o
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The most important shift may be that credentials matter less than they have, and proving that you can do the work matters more. Between YouTube, Udemy, Replit, Optilistic, and a wide range of online educational resources, anyone smart and motivated enough can learn practically anything they want.
Packy McCormick • Sc3nius
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Much like twitter > linkedin for networking. Learn-to-earn is going to slowly replace credentials and largely gamify and invert the education funding model
Ryan Selkis • Crypto Theses for 2022
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