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More Godin overhype. Neat experiment, but most people would not consider this troupe on-par with any MBA program after hanging out for 6 months. Maybe if this
by brk 17y ago
More Godin overhype.
Neat experiment, but most people would not consider this troupe on-par with any MBA program after hanging out for 6 months.
Maybe if this was an 18 month program, or maybe if Godin could better articulate how this is more "MBA" than "self-study" the "students" might have some merits.
- Alex3917 17y agoSpending time in the classroom is bullshit. Merit comes from shipping.
- dschobel 17y agoLet me ask you this, did anyone not pass these MBA classes or fail to get the certificate or whatever he gives you at the end? (I assume you'll all be putting this on your resumes in some form).
- Alex3917 17y agoWe're all doing this because we want to learn from Seth. I don't understand how you could frame that in any sort of pass/fail context. Seth might print out some sort of diploma at the end, he might not, I don't think anyone really cares.
- dschobel 17y agoThe piece of paper wasn't my point but rather if there was any standard of performance to be met.
- Alex3917 17y agoPart of the deal is that all of our goals have to be falsifiable. That is, you have to be able to point to a goal six months later and be able to say, "I didn't meet my goal." So an example of a falsifiable goal would be to get 1000 RSS subscribers. A non-falsifiable goal would be organizing the world's information. Because there's no way you can be held accountable if you don't succeed. So in general we each set our own falsifiable goals, and we're responsible for helping each other succeed. So in the sense that there's a performance standard to be met, your punishment for not meeting that standard is not accomplishing your goals.
- dschobel 17y agoFair enough, thanks for the clarification.
- brk 17y agoPresuming that everyone wants to follow a hacker-esque pursuit, which it does not appear all of these people intend to do. There is much value in class-room learning on subjects like Finance, Accounting, Publishing (books, etc.). You can learn these things yourself, but when the material is well defined and relatively unchanged over time, a classroom environment can present the data in a structured and efficient format.
- aswanson 17y agoWhy would 18 months versus 6 increase the merit of the program?
- brk 17y agoAt the very least it would give you a year and a half of fiscal cycle. Even 18 months is not exactly a lot of time, but in the business world 6 months does not, IMO, give you a statistically valid experience.
- omouse 17y agoIndeed, 2 quarters give you nothing. I was looking at VW U.S. sales and in 2 quarters it looked like sales were raising, but then you add another quarter and they hovered around a certain amount and looked stable. More data points = more accuracy.
- abossy 17y ago"Maybe if this was an 18 month program, or maybe if Godin could better articulate how this is more "MBA" than "self-study" the "students" might have some merits." Self-education invariably triumphs educational process. The key of successful educational institutions is access to the teachers, mentors and environment that students need to advance their own educational goals. From reading a few bios, these students are self-starters and will be constrained by an MBA-style program.
- brk 17y agoSelf-education invariably triumphs educational process Completely agree. Made my first $1M before 30 and am a college drop-out. However, 6 months of working in what is quite frankly a sheltered environment is not exactly "self-education". His MBA program seems, to me, like so much of this marketing hype that is going around today... It is constant promotion and talking, and producing very little product of actual value or interest. Some of the projects seemed interesting. None seemed any more significant (and a few less significant) that what we've seen come from some motivated folks who have neither a real, or a Godin, MBA.