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Ben Horowitz on an alternative path for young people: finish high school, spend a year learning about a field of interest, then let the work teach the rest. "The world has really changed, warfare has changed, power has changed, economics have changed... And there's not a constant refresh of... show more
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You will learn so much more by diving straight into the workplace than goign to college in most fields I can attest as someone who never went to college

Absolutely off the mark. If you skip a college education, you are dooming yourself to a career of relying on others for knowledge. AI is exciting right now and the pace allows someone with two years experience right out of high school to be considered an expert? No other time has this scenario held true and it is not sustainable now. Take the time right after high school to learn a trade or earn a University Degree. Life only gets more complicated the longer you wait and opportunities for Education more challenging.

This is good advice for a select group in the same way that Brad Pitt telling people to follow their dreams and move to LA is 130IQ high openness chads can make this work, but the midwits need rails

i am one of the very rare examples of this path, and even though I've worked for a couple of a16z companies, this is farcically misleading advice. there are automatic opportunities you get from those 4 years of marxist day camp whether you want them or not. The real advice comes from Stanford's Jeffery Pfeffer, which is: power and success are a weighted average of Performance, Credentials, and Relationships. If you go to school you get the latter two for the price of a nice car, and no matter how high your Performance is, it depends on how it's weighted in your field. Anywhere outside the lottery of startups, performance is maybe weighted .3 tops. I've heard it a lot, mostly by mid people with ivy degrees kicking the ladder away, and it is an utterly pants on head take. You can't complain about the state of the world (looking at you @peterthiel) and undermine young people who could still get the tickets to change it.

Ben's shirt makes it look like he touched a Horcrux

Honestly not trying for a hot take, but I'm not so sure about the 12 years of education in elementary and highschool. Everything is changing and getting faster, quick cycles, which churn. 12 years of education needs to be thought through. Major socialization benefit, but limited learning is occurring.

If companies worked with schools in a better way it could be possible.

Agreed

college was designed for a world that moved slower. that world is gone

The risk isn't just the degree, it is the filter. Without a diploma you have to build a public signal that is actually louder than a pedigree. Most people just skip the building part and end up with nothing.

Seriously, I was also a young person with a vocational education, and as an adult I’ve achieved more than graduates of top universities, and it’s all thanks to my way of thinking ADHD + AI

Spot on!

The degree is just a filter for lazy HR teams

Funding for unpaid gap years matters

skip the resume-building theater. pick something real, get good at it, repeat. college is expensive permission to figure out what you already could've figured out working.

Gain skills. Leverage skills to sell services. Stack income. Gain more skills. Repeat.

You may be prepared for the work but not for the interviews

your boy @davidu is a coward and a grifter

Yh

Spend 12 years studying what in school?

I like the freedom and no homework or test scores...

why are none of the comments about Ben's shirt?

Great take on alternative paths. You and @mozlyxy are my go to accounts for this.

So why is high school so special? Why not start at 16? 14? 12?

Same problem we keep seeing: bull cases stay, kill criteria vanish. HuntGap makes Against required →
