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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 24 Mar 2018
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Austen Allred

    I think you can synthesize this with an understanding of the credentialism argument to come up with this: Humans have a hidden stat called Productivity Under Boss (PUB). PUB is not universal across all tasks but it's directionally accurate.https://twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/977780945888542721 …

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    Austen Allred @Austen
    So what if, and hear me out on this, the most important aspect of an education for the majority of people isn't actually the *content* itself (though that certainly matters), but scheduling, artificial discipline, making up for where the average human is broken and/or lazy?
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Mar 2018
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        Industry very much wants high PUB workers. Accordingly, industry finds it very valuable to put potential workers through a multi-year ringer which stamps them as super high PUB, high PUB, or medium PUB. Industry basically doesn't care what you're doing during the PUB evaluation.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Mar 2018
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        Industry also rounds to not caring about whether you're capable of learning any particular subject (orthogonal to PUB) and rounds to not caring about your productivity in the absence of bosses, because they don't have management technology which would function for you that way.

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      2. shawn swyx wang‏ @swyx 24 Mar 2018
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        I think some people who do coworking spaces actually pay someone to be their boss @gretchenrubin’s Four Tendencies framework would identify these people as Obligers (meet outer expectations, resist inner expectations). It’s the largest group by far.

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        Replying to @swyx @patio11 @gretchenrubin

        The other four being?

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      1. James Burns‏ @1mentat 25 Mar 2018
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        Replying to @patio11

        We're still a heirarchical social species, it's easy to forget.

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