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Research suggests the generation of self-taught workers now retiring is the last generation for whom autodidactic learning carried genuine economic power — they could enter industries without credentials, rise without degrees, and build without permi
The insurance executive who watched his high school-educated mentor outperform every MBA replacement discovered a troubling truth: the self-made experts who built America's infrastructure through grit and intuition are vanishing, replaced by a credential-obsessed system that mistakes...
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This kind of fits into the discussion about multiple drone suppliers but only one vehicle supplier.
Building without permission. But also building without a manual. Building without a rule book.
Free form thinking.
Being forced to strip things back to first principles when the rule book no longer applies.
There always has to be a bit of room for mutations. Even if 98% of your needs are met off one production line, shouldn't there somebody doing the other thing? Just in case there is a better idea, or the situation changes and you need to pivot in a hurry.
You can't write a spec for that.
