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The economist, philosopher, and writer Henry Hazlitt sums up the dilemma: In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that the probabilities are immensely against anybody, no matter how innately clever, being able to make a contribution in any one field unless he devotes all his time to it for ye... See more
Shane Parrish • The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled
probably the biggest midwit meme the San Francisco class believes is that top tier shape rotators genuinely have better models of complex emergent societal systems than top tier wordcels, but they just can't articulate them as well-- and wordcels are just snakeoil merchants good at selling their bad models
completely un... See more
yung macro 宏观年少传奇x.comLooking back, there were over 100,000 people in the 2010 census with bachelor's degrees who became janitors. And there were over 5000 with master's degrees who became janitors.
Erik Torenberg • The Higher Education Bubble Pt. 2
“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people get all tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers… It’s very limiting for our society as well as for those students.”
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
The most bitter people you’ll ever meet are white-collar workers in their late 30s who took gifted classes in elementary school and AP classes in high school, got 3.8 GPAs in college, and now make $150-200k in corporate middle-management jobs after failing to develop the personality or the social skills requisite for leadership and authority.___LIN... See more
Robert Sterlingx.comAcademia used to produce polymaths who particularly excelled in a given field. During this period, the prestige of having a university degree was it it’s peak because it reliably signaled you were generally competent and exceptional somewhere.
Now you have comp sci PhDs who can’t tie their shoes let alone identify the t... See more
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