Decades of research shows job training programs don't work at scale because of lack of *supply* of appropriate good jobs. There are always nice learned-to-code stories (I'm one: started coding as a kid and it literally saved my life) but those don't scale.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html …
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We started
@engyinlabs to help college students and dropouts get better at deep tech. We realized that 1. unless you engage in creaming, teaching is incredibly difficult and 2. that the one-to-one / one-to-few approach cannot run at scale. We'll shortly be shutting down.2 replies 5 retweets 43 likes
That is a very common story, unfortunately. A good-faith evaluation almost always ends up with the exact conclusion you just laid out.
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