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If I elaborate on this, I might find myself in El Salvador by the end of the week. And I need to close my Seed. Choosing silence.

Your point here being "people who care about credentialism are herd animals"?

A college where in order to get in you have to show you've been diligent on grades, extracurriculars, and testing for 18 years straight. Ofc exceptions to this, like Trump; but most of the student body of such a college would fit this description. That's a good college.

PT just doesn't like the world that these people ended up creating after being enointed elites, which in parts I agree with.

Trump extremely clearly got in as a nepo kid, so I'd discard him in this argument.

Personally, I find PT's argument sincere that good colleges do measure something important -- even if you disagree with his takes and arguments. I agree with you that his point lost cohesiveness when Bari asked him. He prevaricated -- to a random point on Democrats -- when asked because he didn't want to spell out "Yes, actually, prestige does matter a lot." Something that most, including the hosts of this great blog, agree on tacitly.

Yeah, I actually think PT is sincere in his take that prestige actually does matter and so does school as a measure of IQ and ambition, even if you disagree with him -- but I think his larger posse has translated that message to "you shouldn't go to college and build a B2B SaaS instead. Like Patrick Collison!" Which is harmful and dumb.

Re CEOs: performative claptrap.

Useful clip that clarifies PT's sincere position on the importance of college and elite credentialism.

Haha... it's crazy. And I have friends at META who've been trying to help, and they themselves get in a customer support hell as well. It's wild. $1.9T company.

I have been locked out of my account for 5+ months -- and customer support has been a Kafkaesque nightmare. I am still locked out. (Oh, and I've spent $1M+ in paid META ads...)

IEEE Spectrum is the closest thing that comes to mind ... but the literature on hard tech is indeed scant.

"cycle of epiphany porn" is my favorite new phrase

Lol —— CANCEL THEM ALL!

#RickyGervais2020

In the most respectful way possible, the argument of this article is dumb. And clickbaity.