Universities focus on grades, employers do not
Throughout students’ undergraduate studies, and likely secondary school before that, there is a strong focus on course grades both by the student and by the instructors. Universities heavily …
Countercurrent
Notes on the technical, the human, and changing things
countercurrent /koun′tər-kûr″ənt, -kŭr″-/ · noun · A current that flows against the prevailing one.
Recent Notes
Are 'Tech Bro' Executives the greatest threat to humanity
“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology. And it’s terrifically dangerous.” — E.O. Wilson1 …
Making AI use sustainable: the SUS-AI project
We are still in the very early days of widespread AI usage; the impacts, however, are becoming increasingly clear. In my immediate environment, there are large numbers of hard-working undergraduate …
How to choose where to focus your career path
Before I started university, I was overly focused on the label on my degree, the degree program I would choose, not the career it would enable. This was a common trap, one that most students tend to …
Skills for a countercurrent engineering career
I am an MIT reject, but it was likely one of the best things that ever happened to me. Instead, I was accepted into the engineering program at CMU,1 where you were admitted into two different degree …