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I told this exact thing to my gf few days ago and somehow she was mad at me for it

I completely agree. From my experience in Academia, what happens is, that university departments simply don't know better. They scramble together a course or program they think its needed, and shape it from THEIR perspective of what it should include.

Its like now, when every SaaS company scrambles a way to put AI into their product, just because they think they need to.

> Also, although PG disdains finance and management, many large problems are better addressed through people with skills in these areas IMO

I find this view from pg very narrow minded, and borderline ignorant. He is shaping his essay as in the role of higher education and academia is only to produce startup founders. Which is not, it is a way of a state investing into a labor force that is needed. As long as there are large corporate multinationals, there will be a need for finance, economics and yes, even management. Are a lot of that studies fugazi? Sure they are, but so are a lot of startups.

If everyone coming out of academia would be startup-like, corporations and other businesses simply wouldnt have the workforce for their machinery, and then some big shoot CEO would write blogs how Universities Should Prepare White Collars.

And indeed, reading period produced two trillion dollar companies, but this is statistical anomaly. You could just as well argue, that it keps economy afloat by educating up-coming workforce, but thats harder to prove.

The alternative to this is being also competent at leading.

> This is shockingly vapid and wishy-washy even for PG

He has been like this for a while now. His last few essays are simply advertisement for a startup accelerator. Conveniently, he also owns one of them.

Exactly. Competent at getting votes (and taking them away from competition) and incompetent at leading and being in power.

Can i already subscribe? I hope you decide to do it!

You don't have to censor, but you don't have to pay either

While laughing at the stereotype of French being on the street all the time

What if you are not from the northern US?

I agree with you, also about the strawberry analogy. I was quite surprised to read that author is 22 years old. So many young smart people around!

As per info on the site, author is not German and does not live in Germany (Russian living in Poland). Apparently, his name however is "German".

Best habit, by far. I'd also recommend taking a walk free of any devices. I leave my phone at home and walk through the park few mins away form my home.

I agree, very low-effort article

Unfortunately, I don't know how else to ask something I am genuinely curious about.

> I'd just start with learning all the notes on the fretboard, [...] and scale shapes

This is not as simple as it sounds. It seems, from my experience of learning a guitar and observing others, that there is something inherently illogical how tonality changes between strings. There are two main ways to do it, either you remember by memory, or you simply hear what happens. Both are hard for average beginner, because it just doesn't make sense.

After I have been practicing a guitar for quite some time I started learning a piano for some reason, and seeing the keys in front of me it all made sense instantly

How is the battery?

> among people who like me can charge at home

OP said this, you clearly don't fall into this category. And if servicing an electric car costs more than servicing an old Landrover I will not eat for a week

Well... I am sure someone made good money out of that.

In Slovenia, a post-Yugoslavian country, the school library coordinated a textbook borrowing scheme, where they would own all the material and lend it to students each year. Parents would pay a small "subscription", so each year or two one subject would get new books.

The problem with the back-of-the-book is that once you answer the same exercise few times, you remember what the result is and you work on memory not on skill. At least this is something i struggled with.

Digitalization should be able to provide you with drastically larger number of exercises to practice, and if possible should also provide you with the exercise that is at the right level for you

What? Are you serious?? :o Sorry, this is the saddest sentence I have read in a long time.

That's because our idea of "Digitalisation of Schools" is putting a textbook into pdf form, let student use a computer to open it and call it digitalisation.

I am somehow involved in this field and am yet to see an actual paradigm shift anywhere in Europe. Going back to books just mean that we will continue using old methods, because those same old methods moved onto screen didn't bring improvements we though they would as we labeled them digitalisation

Not only that! You know the typical image of a witch? With a pointy hat and a giant round-shaped pot?

Those were illegal beer brewers in Belgium! Women would put their pointy hat on their door as a sign that there might be, if you ask nicely, some beer for you to buy there.

There is a subreddit called r/r/SelfAwarewolves, where people unknowingly and accidentally basically answer their own questions or suspicions without realizing.

And this is how I feel about recent few pg's essays. There is this new market, political and social reality, that pg decribes well but for some reason just doesn't want to call what it is.

You can guess what I have been doing for the past 2 days :) Coincidentally, the last episode was about a song from my favorite album, so it was meant to be ;)

I think what you are trying to say is that Hendrix captured a specific sound and won over a generation of listeners, while Knoplfer displayed a mastery of the instrument, rarely seen in the mainstream. However, don't underestimate him, they sold out Wembley 16 nights in a row in '85, I am sure that spring some bands. It's now a bit forgotten, but for a period of few years, Dire Straits were the biggest band in the world. Knopfler is usually associated with saying "your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist" :)

Omg man, thanks for ruining my life! I wish I would have this when I was obsessed with it as a teenager in 2010s, and no one else liked similar music.

> I only saw Hendrix play live one time

I love how nonchalantly you threw this one in. I am proper jealous, how was it?

On your first remark, I agree. This is why I love Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler. The studio recordings are amazing, and then you listen to their live stuff and it's even better.

Eu actually plans to introduce something similar through its EUDIW initiative. It will be a digital wallet focusing on privacy preservance and user control over attributes that are shared.

It will take some time tho before it is successfully implemented.

To add to this discussion as someone who had above experience this winter, after (literally) years of mood fluctuations, fatigue and brain fog.

I have started taking SSRI after a harder-than-usual body collapse, and after no matter what I did my mood hasn't improved for a month. Regular running, meditating, writing, crafting, coding etc were my antidote to my mood swings but this time it didn't work. Started taking SSRI and continue doing all this things, and I was reborn.

My therapist said that a big chunk of why i am feeling better is also because I kept doing things that are good for me. That she sees with a lot of her patients that they think a pill will magically change the situation. It doesn't work on itself, you need to show up and do things that release serotonin in your body.

But seriously, unbelievable, years of frustration and friction in my life disappeared and I have never felt better.