ryanlchan

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by ryanlchan 16y ago
I'm sick and tired of people putting arbitrary dollar valuations on abstract things. College is not a financial investment. You can not only look at your debt and your income to make this decision. It might make for a good, sensational news
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
This, but in a more subtle way. People seem obsessed with the economics of having a university degree: how much money you make, the cost of it all. But we're putting an economic microscope on something which is inherently hard to value in d
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Is there a problem here in listening to the wrong people? That author admits that this demographic is quite different from what might emerge organically; might their answers be equally as different? I'm not downplaying the inventiveness of
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
I think we're all interpreting 'just start' differently. Cal might not have done this intentionally, but it's not really fair to compare 'just start' for skills vs. for start-ups. Cal's advice, as he says in the article, is for a very speci
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Well honestly it's about backing up the $300/hr rate. the job of the consultant is to come in and quickly convince the client that they not only know what they are talking about but are experts at what they are talking about. In reality y
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
tl;dr The best chauffeur doesn't have to be the best driver, and consulting firms are not raw meritocracies. I work at a McBain Group level consulting firm as one of the analysis-slaves. My colleagues hail from many different universities,
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
I don't disagree with you; in fact, it's the hiring manager's misunderstanding as much as the prospective student's. The Bachelors is required simply because it's an easy screening mechanism; the colleges have already whittled the list down
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
This attitude was precisely what turned me away from Google. I interviewed for what they call the Rotational Assistant Manager Program (RAMP), which in reality is rotational and management related only in that you go through several differ
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Oligopolies, which are dependent on a limited number of competitors, are ripe for corruption, collusion, and cooperative behavior. This is pretty much exactly why the US has antitrust law. Its history is an interesting read on wikipedia if
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
While I do think that higher education needs an overhaul, the larger problem is that HE is too often misunderstood. It's not a place where you learn skills that explicitly help you get a job; that's called vocational training, and a whole b
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
I find this true for just about every professional services field. Hiring a lawyer, an accountant, a doctor, or a consultant often comes at a rate multiple times their own salaries. But the difference is that the lawyer was probably working
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Perhaps not, but it certainly says something about the fragility of the US monopole mentality. Even if they get to just half of the US GDP, it would be a major coup for China.
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Dubai strikes me as the ultimate endorsement for agile development. Even seemingly unlimited investment, near dictatorial power, and a war room stocked with the smartest development minds in the world could not turn a small patch of desert
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
I'm always surprised by the hard lines people draw between technical and business cofounders. 'Technical founders' mock the business side's naivite and reject the notion that any less than 50% of the work in building a business is programmi