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That is only true if your life ambition is securing a job with that successful tech company. If your ambition is being successful on your own, as an academic,
by xorcist 7y ago
That is only true if your life ambition is securing a job with that successful tech company.
If your ambition is being successful on your own, as an academic, an entrepreneur or as an artist, there are no standardized tests to beat.
- watwut 7y agoBeing successful academic is all about optimizing for various tests and metrics and beating tests. It would be hard to find more institutionalized occupation.
- buboard 7y agodisagree about academics. it's a job that's so mindnumbingly bureaucratic these days. perhaps you mean "science"
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThere is a predictable component to the market. When we exchange articles about "how we did $something-entrepreneurish right and reaped rewards", we're essentially trading exam questions from previous years.