aguacaterojo

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by aguacaterojo 3y ago
> These folks have to be reminded daily what their job is and will find any excuse to not work. We had a young woman working multiple jobs and feeding the work back to Pakistan. We had a young man who smoked weed and played WoW all day.
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by aguacaterojo 3y ago
no meds, what's the implication lol practically: minimised expenses, quit job & university, went to coding meetups in my city 1-2x a week, signed up to a couple mentorship programs as a mentee, read through and completed exercises
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by aguacaterojo 3y ago
Anecdotally speaking, the deeply ingrained cultural view around me is that education is attained through educational institutions. One of Illich's core arguments against traditional schooling is that in fact the mechanisms of school ar
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by aguacaterojo 3y ago
I found Deschooling Society book on my dad's bookshelf about 9 years ago. No idea why he had it. I quit university about 3/4 way through reading it. I'm poorly adapted to the cadence and mechanisms of institutional education
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by aguacaterojo 4y ago
I build a product in this space and our traction is pretty good because we capture the data as well & follow customers with lots of infrastructure way down that very long last mile. We put in as much work into a handful of last mile sol
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by aguacaterojo 4y ago
These things form when the will or the power to implement is there. I would think the possibility of such a unified cross cultural & properly effective institution would be down to power & strategic interests i.e. game theory. Human