Re:Amazon is More Interesting than Google
by kamaal on Thursday September 08, 2011 @05:12AM
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Elite institutions do little to produce great people, they just act as a place where great people can assemble, learn and move forward.
The same with IIT, IIT itself will do little to make the person better. Even my experiences with IIT'ians has not been uniform, a lot of them are good ... but not everybody.
Now the main stuff,
Academics is one thing, industry totally another thing. Academics assumes that you can memorize, recollect from the memory and invent. The industry assumes your can discover and deliver. In our times to be able to discover is far more important thing than ability to invent. Coupled with productivity is what makes this software so interesting.
If you are productive, hardworking, and discover and experiment quickly you can achiever far more than any guy from IIT or whatever.
In short, Education only takes you so far. After that its all upto your work.
The same with IIT, IIT itself will do little to make the person better. Even my experiences with IIT'ians has not been uniform, a lot of them are good ... but not everybody.
Now the main stuff,
Academics is one thing, industry totally another thing. Academics assumes that you can memorize, recollect from the memory and invent. The industry assumes your can discover and deliver. In our times to be able to discover is far more important thing than ability to invent. Coupled with productivity is what makes this software so interesting.
If you are productive, hardworking, and discover and experiment quickly you can achiever far more than any guy from IIT or whatever.
In short, Education only takes you so far. After that its all upto your work.