Why Leaving for a PhD Might Be a Mistake

We just lost an absolutely brilliant MIT guy who went off to get a Princeton PhD. He's starting this week. And I'm sure that he'll wake up to what you just said sometime in his PhD journey. I'm hoping it can be like in a week or two and not in a year or two. But he feels like, you know, to get to the Noam Brown, Mark Chen world, I need to go get this PhD. And the message that you just said, like, you will be so late to the party 4 years from today that it's absolutely the wrong thing to do. But there's a lot of pressure, you know, from academia, from family, from whatever. And it's just like the more this podcast can change that, but you know, you're never going to find more brilliant people who have PhDs than Alex and Ahmad telling you, no, absolutely not.