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Perhaps what's happening is that college students, like so many other parts of society are becoming more polarized: that the spoilt ones are more spoilt than in the past, but the effective ones are also more effective than in the past.
The news media then focuses on the spoilt ones, because they generate ready-made clickbait stories. And meanwhile there's another, much more encouraging story happening quietly in parallel.
Love this. I am a recent grad. When can we chat? @paulg
Question: did these undergrads know who you are? Because the group of undergrads with ambitions to be the next Airbnbs and Stripes wouldn’t be spoilt snowflakes I believe you have a natural filter that keeps you away from the large majority of students who ARE spoilt snowflakes
Yeah. This. I'd say if you were really curious, you should try random selection on a campus.
I think a big part of it is that with modern tech/media/social media, they're just more vocal and easy for lazy "journalists" to access, while before unless you were in uni yourself, you probably didn't notice them. There's definitely plenty of non-lazy ambitious smart ones!
How do you square this with all the ‘campus free speech crisis’ freakouts pushed by the Classical Liberal set? Are they not the same ready-made clickbait stories that ignore reality?
Success stories don't sell as hard as failure stories.
I would tend to agree with this. I'm a recent graduate (2 years in October) and have ambitions of founding a startup at some point in the next five years or so. I would love to chat with you about this if you have an hour or so!
Also quite possible that whatever students you're meeting with are predisposed to be some of the best. Not trying to stroke your ego—but there are millions of college students and they aren't all meeting/wanting to meet Paul Graham.
media blindness today seems uniquely pathological. noticing the blind spots the wider public has inherited due to this pathology seems like an easy hack to quickly achieve Thiel's "believe something true about the future others do not"
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