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6 Post author: malcolmocean 21 August 2015 03:07AM

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 21 August 2015 01:51:24PM 0 points [-]

School taught me to write banal garbage because people would thumbs-up it anyway.

Is going back to school, for a more advanced degree, at a university with stricter academic standards, a viable retraining choice for you at this point?

Comment author: malcolmocean 21 August 2015 10:20:33PM 2 points [-]

Ehh, more advanced degree would probably help somewhat, although incentives are pretty messed up there too in different ways. The university I went to and program I took are both highly regarded—I'm biased, of course, but I've heard this from various less-biased sources.

I'm instead going to train my thinking skills on things like my business, because there I get actual feedback from the world on how successful I am. Also because the feedback there is made of dollars.

Comment author: Clarity 22 August 2015 07:11:17AM 1 point [-]

'We need 2 Stalins!'