Seems to me that kids choosing a major in school are doing so based on current events (t = 0) and the advice of elders (t = -10 to -20 years), when it should be based on long-term future opportunities (t = +10 to +20 years)
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~30 years (if this speculation is correct) is a long lag time from discovering an opportunity to training a generation for it.
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Paul Graham’s “stay upwind” is actually good advice; since you don’t know what industry you’ll actually be in, learn the hard/fundamental stuff so you’ll have more options later. Eg err on the side of more math/physics.
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Tangent:
@pmarca was an emacs power user (epoch!), and emacs teaches you to reshape the world to what you want it to be rather than you adapting to what the software tells you to do. Seems like a great match for cs and business, but may not be what you want for physics or historyHvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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The Case Against Education by
@bryan_caplan has extensive discussion of the cost/benefit of college for kids thinking about it. Less discussion of specific majors, but remember the big gap isn't between preparing to be a programmer and preparing to be in biotech, it's between 1/ -
preparing to be a programmer and studying art history or Jane Austen novels.
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