Last week I shared some of my concerns with what I called high-variance professions. A high-variance profession is one where a lot of people fail and a few succeed. Think actors, entrepreneurs, musicians and athletes. I explained why high-variance is generally a bad thing, in terms of life outcomes, although it’s certainly not an open-and-shut […]
Archives for November 2012
Should You Pursue Your Dream, Even if You’ll Probably Fail?
I like to think of myself as a rational person. Yes, I have emotions that muddle my choices, and I make mistakes on logic problems just like anyone else. But when I have big decisions to make in my life, I’d like to believe that I go with the facts. Which is why the titular […]
Why the Fuss Over Lectures?
The last few years have seen a burst of new educational platforms. Khan Academy, Coursera and edX, were just a few. At the core of all of these platforms is the same thing: video lectures. This doesn’t surprise me. When I listed the courses I followed during my experiment to learn MIT’s computer science program […]