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Fred Wilson: Skip School and Learn to Code

• geophile 15y ago
  The HN title is misleading. The speaker visited a B-school and advised students to increase their understanding of technology, which is of course a good thing. Of course, a B school grad who has dabbled in Ruby is not really going to be qualified to "evaluate if somebody technical is good or not".
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  • fredwilson 15y ago
    yup. very misleading. they took a suggestion that MBAs take the time while in school to "get more technical" and turned it completely around. typical media bullshit
• danneu 15y ago
  These stories hit close to home. I'm about to graduate from business school in December and have spent a lot of my time at university scavenging for free time between school/work/social obligations to educate myself in things far more marketable/interesting/fulfilling than dataflow diagrams and gantt charts. As someone that can spend 12 hours a day bettering my own craft on a Macbook in Starbucks, I feel that school has been a monolithic obstacle in what I truly want in life. I just didn't realize that until far too late in my degree.