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The Chinese have got it right.

They might be making mistakes in who they silence, but we are most definitely making mistakes on who we allow to speak. And it's wasting everyone's time and unbelievable amount of humanities resources.

There are lot of people in western society today who are using the media and social media in exactly the same sophisticated way the Chinese govt is "to control, manage and harness the internet for their own purposes".

And I trust this manipulation in the hands of govt's much more than in the hands of Zuckerberg or whoever. Why? Cause when the shit hits the fan as it will govt's can't just easily walk away. Zuckerberg can. Just like the bankers did.

PhD's are not for everybody. Don't sweat it. I know people who took 6-7 years to figure that out.

Start applying for jobs. Expect rejections and interviews to go badly initially. Working at a PhD lab doesn't really prepare you for the standard dev position interview process. Unless you have worked on something interesting that a company is interested in, you have to put in some interview prep work. Put in the hours in prep, it will pay off.

If you made it into an Ivy League school, you can make it into any dev position you want. I can understand the self doubt and feelings of uncertainty you are experiencing, but the key is to refocus the mind on interview processes and prep. Good luck!