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Explaining Lambda School's Success: Career Legibility
In what other industry does someone with no college degree, no training, no background, no formal experience, and no connections massively outperform someone with the best education, the best training, and the best connections? I struggle to think of any.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Now a new set of organizations is building on the Ball Foundation work, often with the help of artificial intelligence, to design assessments that they claim are highly effective at pinpointing people’s aptitudes and matching them to potential careers. Most are focused on employers, offering assessments that can be given to applicants to see if the... See more
Education Next • First, Know Thyself. Then, Pick a Career Path
the way we de-emphasize role-related knowledge in hiring leaves us a bit vulnerable to this issue, because we like to hire people who may not know how to do a job. We have faith that almost all of them will figure it out, and along the way are more likely to invent a novel solution than someone who’s “been there, done that.”
Laszlo Bock • Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
We’re caught in this Schelling point, this coordination point for the institutions: How do I know if I should hire you? Will you have a diploma from Harvard? I know it’s not as good as it used to be. I know a Harvard humanities diploma’s probably nonsense at this point, but I don’t have any other credibility metric to filter you and I need to
... See moreNaval Ravikant • Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
There's some logic to this: the most profitable partner for a given firm might be someone who's 85th-percentile good at what the firm does and 99th-percentile good at strategy, schmoozing, taking risks, not losing one's mind when some of those risks inevitably turn out badly, etc.