I’m one who never finished college yet went on to have a reasonably successful career in technology.

My highly credentialed friends all suffer from the same two ailments; the belief that the degrees they hold prove they are inherently worth more to society than those without, a pervasive fear that they may someday wake up and find themselves irrelevant and discarded.


This is the price of thinking of education as something one “achieves” rather than pursues.

We should purge the use of the word “higher” from “higher education”. By definition it infers creation of an elite class.

In a world where knowledge is ubiquitous and freely available (google search, Kahn Academy, etc.) knowledge is no longer confined within ivy covered walls. Wisdom is what’s in short supply.