Siddharth Rajsekar argues degrees don't prepare you for real work. He points to Edgar Dale's Cone of Learning to show why hands-on experience beats classroom theory, and says you'll spend your first job relearning what you should have known. With agentic AI coming, learning how to actually do things matters more than ever.
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Learn it from a mentor who's an implementer, not just a professor who's done research that also has its role. But what people really need now is real world, hands on, tangible, experiential knowledge that can be applied in the real world. Because what happens typically is people, they go to a college, they go to school, they learn, they get the degrees, they go through the entire system and then when they get into the job again, they're relearning in that job, they're going through the entire process once again. And most of us, we are not applying the knowledge what we would have learned in school and college. So there's a fundamental shift that is happening in the world. And I'll come to the different states and the different ways of learning based on the cone of Learning by Edgar Dale. I'll come to that next. But the main thing is this, that now we are living in an era which is not just info and entertainment. We are moving into the AI era right now when our AI can even think for us, AI can even do stuff for us. And we are moving into a world where it's going to go into agentic AI probably. It's already happening right now where you just need to tell technology what you want to get done. It'll do everything for you.