when someone tells you "no one's ever lost money doing X," that's usually a sure sign someone's about to lose money doing X - Auren Hoffman

Advice for standing out as a hire:
(1) Manage your manager
(2) Push your manager to go faster
(3) Do what you say you are going to do
(4) Never let people wait for you

This will make you indispensable because 99% of people don’t do this

People that drop out of college are way worse off than people that never go in the first place (outside of outliers like Zuck, Gates, etc.) - all the debt, none of the benefit

its a huge policy failure that policymakers treat everyone’s higher ed completion probability as 100%. In reality the completion rate is roughly 50%.

Old ponzi: steal from reputable charities
New ponzi: steal from international criminal cartels