have been sitting in a lot of hiring conversations and it’s remarkable how persistent the character of thought that institutions install are— no matter how much one rejects the specific ideas taught. ex: 99% of MIT students think in similar ways, even if the outcomes vary
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Is this MIT-specific, or top-tier STEM-specific, or top-tier uni specific (i.e. is there a prototypical MIT student vs Yale student)
I think its true across most institutions, MIT just fit in the char limit. I.e. I think the ways that I think are 99% determined by 14 years of quaker school, and dramatically less formed by two years of mediocre engineering ed
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quaker school?
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now i am waiting for an archetypal taxonomy hot take to drop on your substack
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