> I realized that doing a Ph.D. would probably be fruitless. How did I determine this? Well clearly it takes someone going to the best math departments in orde

> I realized that doing a Ph.D. would probably be fruitless. How did I determine this? Well clearly it takes someone going to the best math departments in order to realize that within a hierarchical organizations wherein tenured employees can supervise a lot of grad students in the span of their career, only a few of those grad students can really get a job similar to their supervisor. Was this really a revelation?