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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 Oct 2018
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Mason  💦 👏 +  😷 +  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

    A thing I have often thought about is how everyone professes to love education and says universities are good at it but if I told my friends or family that I'm taking 4 years to do another undergrad degree (at age 36) for personal enrichment they'd question my sanity.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1048193848554348545 …

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    Mason  💦 👏 +  😷 +  🏃‍♂️ ✂️ @webdevMason
    Can't help but see a connection to the ultimate marketing success story (I refrain from "scam," but w/ trepidation): the idea that every single young adult in the country, regardless of aptitude, interests, or plans, should attend a 4-year college. (Eat your heart out, De Beers.)
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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 6 Oct 2018
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        "Wait you'd spend $160k and 4 years of your life just to listen to a bored professor drone in front of a room full of idiots who are generally either absent or hungover?" "Yeah, that does seem odd. Remind me why I did it the first time? Was it much cheaper or shorter? I forget."

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      2. jbowles‏ @jbowayles 6 Oct 2018
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        Replying to @patio11 @sehurlburt

        yeah. or 42 taking personal time for prep math courses to eventually do a masters degree 1 class per semester... just because, well... math is cool.

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      3. Jack Golding‏ @goldingolding 6 Oct 2018
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        Replying to @jbowayles @patio11 @sehurlburt

        All I got out of my maths degree is one really cool story about computational complexity theory

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      2. Barry Kelly‏ @barrkel 6 Oct 2018
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        Opportunity costs and marginal benefits. The marginal benefit of a degree when you have nothing is very large; when you have lots of proven industry experience, very low. Opportunity costs for young people are small. For already successful people, enormous.

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      3. Tom Kelly ケリー・トム‏ @tomkXY 6 Oct 2018
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        This is why I went straight into a postgrad program while still comfortable on a student budget. I knew it would be harder to go back to university if I had an established career. It’s more new transferable skills and less debt (on scholarship/stipend) than re-doing undergrad.

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      1. Matjaž Leonardis‏ @MatjazLeonardis 6 Oct 2018
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        One could tell a “diminishing returns” story to make sense of this strange fact. Alas it’s not the real reason.

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      1. Jason Bell‏ @j_jason_bell 6 Oct 2018
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        Signal value doesn’t stack.

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      1. Yury.‏ @ytspar 6 Oct 2018
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        A friend of mine did two years at Stanford under some program which wasn’t degree granting and his classmates couldn’t understand why he’d come “just” to learn.

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      2. Jim Weisser‏ @jimbudweisser 6 Oct 2018
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        A large portion of the value received from education is related to Signaling rather than to the material learned. GMU’s Kaplan has a book on the topic, reviewed herehttps://quillette.com/2018/06/03/bryan-caplans-case-education-review/ …

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      3. Nadav Har'El‏ @nyharel 7 Oct 2018
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        Beyond this truth, there's another one: The most important thing you learn in a university is not specific material (most of which you won't remember in 10 years), but how to think, how to work, and how to learn. You don't need to learn those things twice.

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