1/ good thread (I'm RTing something the middle of it; scroll up & down) It's a bit of special pleading, bc I'm also one of these high-intelligence / high-conscientiousness / low-agreeableness people (OCEAN), but I think it's true that a lot of good comes from that psychographichttps://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1460224977098231819 …
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3/ so I'm not sure if high-g / low-agreeable folks should be encouraged to go the university path, or if the universities excluding these sorts of people is Good, Actually c.f. Thiel Fellowship
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4/ I went to an Ivy league college, double majored in CS and History and ... it was a miserable portion of my life, and I'm not sure it was worth the time spent, even if the tuition was free (and it wasn't) if I had to do it over again in 2021 >>>
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5/ I'd - do a 6 month code academy (which might better prepare me for work than 4 years of Cornell) - read widely afterwards (as I in fact did / do ) I hear friends and relatives talk about sending their kids to college and it sounds like madness to me.
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6/ yeah, CS was 100% theoretical when I was at Cornell ; zero coding classes ; it was assumed we'd just pick it up by osmosis (which we had to - sink or swim, baby) 10% of that theory I use a lot ; 90% was just professors justifying their research areas by "teaching" undergrads
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