Life cycle of an educational institution:
1. initial pitch: we teach real skills
2. gain brand by teaching real skills
3. people start attending because of brand
4. teaching "real skills" gets decoupled from success
5. become a university
(this will happen to Lambda)
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wrote a thing about "sell-out" culture that says similar things. Pontificating the long arc of supposed future institutions is fun great mental exercise.
Point is how to maximize temporary value creation.
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Tried to search ribbonfarm for the post. Will find it somehow later.
Also request for startup, content search that works.
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