Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Skills and education

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Excerpt: Marc Andreeson is a somewhat legendry technologist. His advice may not fit you, but it is still worth listeneing to: "Some people argue that college will be your one chance in life to pursue your passion—to spend four years doing nothing but studying whatever you love the most, whether that’s Renaissance literature or existential philosophy.

I disagree."

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- {'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'text': 'Some people argue that college will be your one chance in life to pursue your passion—to spend four years doing nothing but studying whatever you love the most, whether that’s Renaissance literature or existential philosophy.\n\nI disagree.', 'created': '2022-07-17T22:18:55.752Z', 'lastUpdate': '2022-07-17T22:18:55.762Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '62d48acf0d9ea8c0eb48d9c0'}
- {'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'text': 'Graduating with a technical degree is like heading out into the real world armed with an assault rifle instead of a dull knife', 'created': '2022-07-17T22:19:13.063Z', 'lastUpdate': '2022-07-17T22:19:13.077Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '62d48ae10d9ea87b2d48d9c2'}
- {'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'text': 'Generally, if you have a useful undergrad degree, I think graduate degrees are overrated.', 'created': '2022-07-17T22:19:25.447Z', 'lastUpdate': '2022-07-17T22:19:25.465Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '62d48aed0d9ea8651248d9c3'}
- {'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'text': 'I’m a huge fan of gaining practical experience in school by working during the school year, and then doing as many internships and co-op programs as you ca', 'created': '2022-07-17T22:19:53.949Z', 'lastUpdate': '2022-07-17T22:19:53.976Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '62d48b090d9ea85a9548d9c6'}
- {'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'text': 'I already talked about combining an undergrad engineering degree with an MBA. I’ll hire as many of those people as I possibly can.', 'created': '2022-07-17T22:20:32.523Z', 'lastUpdate': '2022-07-17T22:20:32.553Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '62d48b300d9ea8e20d48d9c7'}
- {'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'text': 'always advise young people to become good public speakers (top 25%). Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you’re the boss of the people who have only one skill...\n\nAt least one of the skills in your mixture should involve communication, either written or verbal.', 'created': '2022-07-17T22:20:50.943Z', 'lastUpdate': '2022-07-17T22:20:50.977Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '62d48b420d9ea844be48d9c9'}
- {'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'text': 'hink of this as the art of being able to interact with people such that they will do what you want, predictably and repeatedly, as long as you are making sense and offering them something they should want.', 'created': '2022-07-17T22:21:17.164Z', 'lastUpdate': '2022-07-17T22:21:17.206Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '62d48b5d0d9ea81db348d9ca'}
- {'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'text': 'In my opinion, it’s now critically important to get into the real world and really challenge yourself—expose yourself to risk—put yourself in situations where you will succeed or fail by your own decisions and actions, and where that success or failure will be highly visible.', 'created': '2022-07-17T22:21:40.886Z', 'lastUpdate': '2022-07-17T22:21:40.951Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '62d48b740d9ea8f1e848d9cb'}