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You have to cater to your customers #shorts

Name: You have to cater to your customers #shorts
Uploaded: 2024-05-06T19:53:08+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Royston G King
Description: In this YouTube short, the speaker argues that skill‑based education—such as learning Excel, Python, or WordPress—has far greater real‑world relevance…

6 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker argues that skill‑based education—such as learning Excel, Python, or WordPress—has far greater real‑world relevance than elite academic courses from Ivy League institutions. He points out that while a few can learn machine learning from a Stanford professor, thousands need basic digital skills to secure entry‑level white‑collar jobs or build simple websites. The speaker champions first‑principles thinking, urging creators to ignore prevailing trends and even the opinions of the world’s smartest people when designing educational content, focusing instead on what delivers the most impact for the majority.

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For every one person who can learn machine learning from a Stanford professor, there's like 1,000 people who need to learn some Excel to get their first white-collar job, or they need to learn some Python or WordPress to maybe build a website for the bakery on the corner. So I always thought like the— what Udemy was teaching, that kind of more skill-based learning, had like an order of magnitude larger relevance to the entire world than kind of like courses from Ivy League colleges in US, right? So, and I think this is one of the things where like I'm a very big fan of like first principles thinking. So I try to really avoid like what other companies are doing, what people are saying. I just like, even by the way, sometimes like the smartest people on earth say something and you still have to ignore it, right?