Category Archives: Education

Peter Thiel on dropping out of college — [VIDEO]

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Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity — [VIDEO]

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American citizens and its universities have experienced an ivy-laden ivory tower for the past half century. Students, however, can no longer assume that a four year degree will be the golden ticket to a good job in a global economy that cares little for their social networking skills and more about what their labor is worth on the global marketplace. — [LINK]

“Peter Thiel may be on to something, but all of our kids just can’t up and quit college à la Bill Gates.”

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Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it.

Peter Thiel: It’s basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money’s worth, objectively, when you do the math. And at the same time it is something that is incredibly intensively believed; there’s this sort of psycho-social component to people … Continue reading

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Dan Pink on motivation – Money (for mechanical tasks) – Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose (for cognitive tasks) – [VIDEO]

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Correlation gone wong? Kauffman Foundation study on education and entrepreneurship sparks controversy.

“The question is whether being educated in a ‘top’ school helps or not. And the design of the study simply does not allow any conclusion about this question, in either direction!“ More info.

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NO CORRELATION BETWEEN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Those who are born without the silver spoons in their mouths are more motivated to succeed. UPDATE: Prof Panos Ipeirotis wrote this comment, at TechCrunch: “The question is whether being educated in a ‘top’ school helps or not. And the … Continue reading

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Scholarpedia – Search results for query “prediction markets”:

“No page with that title exists.” On that same page, those academic i****s link to Amazon.com instead of linking to Wikipedia. What a bunch of mediocre i*******s. This is so stupid. Another evidence why we should should not listen to … Continue reading

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The Singularity University looks at prediction markets and collective intelligence.

David Orban: In its ten tracks Singularity University (SU) tries to cover as much as possible of a vast amount of material. The specifics are steered by the track chairs, with a lot of input from both the students, the … Continue reading

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The Singularity University + The Prediction Markets

Spot the 3 men on the right-side of the photo: – In blue, our good friend Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons; – In red, the Google guy in charge of open-source software; – In grey, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. So, … Continue reading

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