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

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Nov 2019
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      If you take revealed preferences seriously, it's possible that the most important parts of the school experience are the ones that adults will willingly choose to subject themselves to. This leads me to the terrifying thought that I may have underestimated gym class.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Nov 2019
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      But if you consider the courses I actually liked a) if I told friends or family "Yeah I'm doing an hour a week of US History because I love the material" they'd think I was borderline crazy and b) if I did that *like school does* I would think I was crazy, too.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Nov 2019
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      "And here's a quiz to make sure you did the reading." "Not sure why you need to check that, but don't worry, I did the reading." "Oh I don't trust you and also need some time during this hour so here, quiz." "Wait walk me through that again." "Don't talk back to me."

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Nov 2019
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      "I... I think I'm hiring you for your expertise on the subject of US History and the teaching of it. Did I check the wrong box and sign up for some social dominance service instead?" "No we call this teaching now sit down and quiz." "I... think I'm leaving." "You literally can't"

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Nov 2019
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      Another revealed preference thing which is scary to contemplate: I loved US History, to the point of even declaring a desire to major in and teach it at one point, and while I don't think I've changed on the subject it represents maybe ~2% of the books I choose to read.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Nov 2019
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      So is my takeaway that I didn't love US history, that my preferences have changed as an adult, or that the wide world has a lot more interesting things in it that I would stackrank above US history but since I could only choose from the limited universe on offer US history it was

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        1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Nov 2019
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          (I apologize for somewhat quirky-for-me philosophizing on this issue. Having children is really a trip, particularly if you hear "Why do I have to go to school today?" and decide to take it maximally seriously.)

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        1. Christopher F. Nicholson‏ @chrisFnicholson 27 Nov 2019
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          It’s the latter.

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        2. David McDougall‏ @dmcdougall 28 Nov 2019
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          From the age of 5 until I was 17, I knew exactly what I wanted to bro as an adult - immunology research. I maxed out available Bio courses at my high school, including Neuroscience, but I didn’t really have any choices in subject matter except around the edges 1/2

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        3. David McDougall‏ @dmcdougall 28 Nov 2019
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          But then I did a postgrad year at a boarding school that offered classes like “Capitalism and its Critics” and “Existentialism and Literature,” and in the last week of classes I realised that I didn’t know what the inside of the science building looked like 2/2

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        2. Therin‏ @crtherin 29 Nov 2019
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          It never occurred to me that building cool stuff people can use now, and solving issues that are important to me was a possibility so I wanted to be an astrophysicist. Still love that field, but no chance I’m going to work in it in a traditional sense now.

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        3. Therin‏ @crtherin 29 Nov 2019
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          School failed me massively in that regard as it framed my possible prospects as work in a boring company or work in medicine, nothing else. I never tried much in school either, so the options for “exceptional” kids(research, CS, arts) were never laid out for me as possible.

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