Average tuition for a year at a US private college is $35k. Nobody should pay that. Offering $140k for 1 year of regular time with any one of the best minds in your field of choice would be a strictly better use of your resources (and probably theirs, if they'd otherwise teach).
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Replying to @webdevMason @mileskimball
I see this idea that one on one time could somehow replace the college experience. This makes no sense to me. Part of what you are paying for is the network you create. The friends you make. The new ideas you are exposed to. One person cannot replace that.
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Yeah, same for me. My college experience was actually not much less of a social lobotomy than my high school experience, but I didn’t realize that until I dropped out & took a really interesting research job in NYC
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Replying to @webdevMason @joelgrus and
I understand what you did can work for some people (it would have worked for me) but don’t understand how it scales.
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Replying to @babarganesh @joelgrus and
It doesn’t. Trade schools & bootcamps are scalable. Drop occupational licensing where it doesn’t directly protect public safety. In general, create a more competitive business environment — companies that prioritize the proxies for merit over actual merit will not do well.
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Replying to @webdevMason @joelgrus and
Merit is a proxy itself, for future productivity. Past productivity is a proxy for future productivity. I agree with most of what you say (esp occupational licensing) but proxies are structurally necessary imho
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