34 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1 Nov
Excellent.
A TOC of the main points:
- The prestige treadmill to nowhere
- Education has become resume engineering
- Risk aversion kills growth
- Purpose isn’t a job title
- The false promise of perfect parenting
- The hollow core of modern education
- Leadership without purpose
- The service trap
- Real excellence requires freedom
- The safe path is the riskiest
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 2 Nov
Interesting article. One of his links (https://anandsanwal.me/ghost-nonprofits-manufacturing-virtue/) was about fake nonprofits being created by students applying to elite colleges, nonprofits that were JUST created and run for a couple months in order to get admission to the college, and then dropped.
It's very cynical and manipulative - both on the part of the students, the colleges, and the consultants that help them with this scam.
I saw this all the time on a neighborhood online forum I used to belong to. Regularly there would be posts by high-schoolers advertising their new nonprofit. I remember one of them was supposedly an online computer tutoring nonprofit, another was a charity that supposedly went to senior centers and offered pedicures and facials.
It was all so fake. The whole college system is built on fraud.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @byzantine OP 2 Nov freebie
yes and i think this non profit nonsense continues into adulthood