College and Technical Maturity · Tanishq Kumar

When living in the Bay Area and seeing what people needed to know to build interesting things in various fields, I started to believe that most of what you learn in college is (for most people) useless (or can be learned in one's own time), and that if you purely optimizing for vocational expertise you're better off taking the foundational courses in your field and then leaving school. My attitude on this has shifted slightly. I maintain that the above stance is, as stated, probably accurate, but I also now appreciate that this thesis is incomplete.