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College and Technical Maturity · Tanishq Kumar

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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. The initial premise of my argument was that learning new material is only useful insofar as it does one or more of these things. This means understanding the foundational modes of thought of the field well enough that you could easily teach yourself adjacent material in the field. The "in a specific field" caveat is important because it do not think that taking a hard graduate course on, say, randomized algorithms will improve your ability

College and Technical Maturity · Tanishq Kumar Tanishq Kumar Home About Writing Courses Research College and Technical Maturity 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're 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, a

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