2009/4/25 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
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.