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Are you working on the most important problem in your field? Why not? (with Rohit Krishnan)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Value of Credentials in Identifying Talent: A Necessary Evil

Credentials are becoming a necessary but costly evil as they don't serve their original purpose anymore and there are better methods to identify talent./nCredentials have increased in cost, particularly in academia./nAt scale, the credential by itself doesn't tell you what you need to know about a person's chops for a particular job./nProblems with credentials exist as problems of scale./nCreating new GitHub repos or contributing to open source may become a new way to identify talent.

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