[WikiEN-l] Paul Graham on credentialism

[Charles Matthews]

David Gerard wrote:
> How do you tell an expert? They have credentials, of course. Er, maybe.
>
> http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html
>
> (Paul Graham is a computer scientist and dot-com winner who
> pontificates on subjects he understands to a greater or lesser degree.
> Interesting even when wrong.)
>
>   
Rather self-congratulatory on the grounds of US first degrees no longer 
being particularly meaningful!  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?  It may be a worthwhile point that 
credentialism has been concentrated in sectors of the economy well away 
from technology startups, but even that skates over a few issues (such 
as how you professionalise a startup when it grows, very visible from 
here in Cambridge where most tech firms stay small, as opposed to the 
Silicon Valley model).

Charles