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Jason Crawford
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I write about the history of technology & industry at @rootsofprogress. Previously: co-founder & CEO, @fieldbookapp; engineering manager at Flexport and Amazon
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As a founder, *any* time you talk to *anyone* about your startup, you are pitching. Give it your best every time twitter.com/alinelernerLLC…
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Hey Twitter? It works. Ship it 🚢
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Anyway congrats to Twitter for catching up to 1990s online conversation technology
Ok, seriously… it's an improvement!
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Twitter appears to have discovered that conversations branch and that a tweet can have more than one reply. Or maybe I'm in the treatment of an A/B test? pic.twitter.com/WeC4kBypsq
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Also youtu.be/I6IQ_FOCE6I
(The references are getting a bit dated but it's still a classic)
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This genre never gets old twitter.com/alex_danco/sta…
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There was good stuff on this in A Splendid Exchange rootsofprogress.org/books/a-splend…
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This is concerning. Source?
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And in the early 1700s, the Rev. Cotton Mather was both a witch trial prosecutor and an early advocate of an important medical practice, smallpox inoculation
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I like this, but it feels orthogonal to what I was saying
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Don't do it unless you actually enjoy bio 😁
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attn @slatestarcodex: “the increasing prevalence of unwantedness across birth order explains a substantial part of the documented birth order effects in education and employment” link.springer.com/article/10.100… (via @MargRev)
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What would such a course of study look like?
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My hunch: software engineering will continue to grow as a profession, but growth rates will be slower over the next 20 years than they've been over the last 20 years.
If you want to optimize for the next 20–50 years, go into biology
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Sure, but we could at least try harder. Gotta be some way to predict this better than just being stuck in the past.
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~30 years (if this speculation is correct) is a long lag time from discovering an opportunity to training a generation for it.
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Does, say, someone like @pmarca have the clout to pull this off if he wanted to?
Is anyone with good advice to give people age ~16–20 trying to do so?
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If you wanted to reach the top ~10% of high school students in their junior and senior years in order to give them advice about how to manage their careers, how could you do it? Who or what has their attention, where a serious message would fit?
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Obviously we can't predict future opportunities decades out in much detail or with high confidence, but shouldn't we be trying harder?
Are we basically placing the future in the hands of high school guidance counselors?
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