2009/4/25 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
Rather self-congratulatory on the grounds of US first
degrees no longer
being particularly meaningful!
Paul Graham's stuff is always interesting, but sometimes just a little
narrow ... the world is an MIT-orbiting technology startup.
Which rather ducks the point that where
you go to graduate school would still matter enormously. Why _are_
people hired in the basis of MBAs?
I have a friend who's discovering that MBA is the degree after Ph.D if
you don't want to be an academic. He says it's like doing flung monkey
dung as a second language. Learning how to treat people as things for
a living. I suppose that's shibboleths. I'm sure that's appallingly
unfair to MBA degrees.
- d.