Book Summary: The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg
The book emphasizes heavily life education, glorifies college dropouts, and questions college education except for specialized fields like law and medicine.
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The book emphasizes heavily life education, glorifies college dropouts, and questions college education except for specialized fields like law and medicine.
Bureaucrats take the actions which are justifiable (by book or by order of their superiors), they care less about consequences (in case there are multiple possible actions, they let the politician decide the appropriate action). Technocrats take the actions which (according to their analysis) […]
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Enough articles have been written about engineering crunch in the valley while some solutions like increasing equity grants to engineers have been suggested, the bigger issue of the broken recruiting pipeline has not gained the attention it deserves. Its a job of recruiters to source […]
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The Art of War is considered one of the classic books on military strategy. Due to the recent resurgence of China as an economic superpower, the book has garnered interest from non-Chinese who are curious to know more about its strategy. […]
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I was trying to make some modifications to android emulator and was unable to find good set of instructions for the compiling the same. Here are mine. # Get the source code. git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu cd qemu # Install required […]
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