The Cracks That Are Forming Are Really Non-Uniform

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In software engineering, I think it's increasingly accepted that you don't necessarily need a college degree to be a good software engineer. But some industries still are going to just sort of look for a college degree as like a standard thing. So we still end up using credentials in a lot of places where there exists no better slash differentiated methods of identifying talent.

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How are curiosity and innovation connected? What's the most important problem in your field? And are you working on it? Why or why not? Is curiosity the best heuristic — either for an individual or for society at large — for finding valuable problems to work on? What mental models do people tend to use by default? How much is an academic degree worth these days? What are some alternatives to degrees that could count as valid credentials, i.e., as unfakeable (or very-hard-to-fake) signals of someone's level of skill in an area? Can people learn to fake any kind of signal, or are there some that are inherently unfakeable?

Rohit Krishnan is an essayist at Strange Loop Canon, where he writes about business, tech, and economics. He's been an entrepreneur and an investor and is very excited to see when crazy ideas meet the real world. Follow him on Twitter at @krishnanrohit.

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