Experiential, not credential
Monday, March 30th, 2009JPL, NASA and Boeing do not hire R&D problem solvers who have not played with their hands before, not even people from MIT or Caltech.
Fewer than one of three executives who reach upper- echelon positions hold an MBA. Business Week
Ross Perot, former presidential candidate and billionaire, never attended college.
Joan Withers, CEO of Fairfax Media New Zealand, didn’t finish high school.
Going to uni to get a computer science degree doesn’t make you a great programmer.
The best way to learn is through practise. To learn how to program, program; to learn maths, do maths; to learn a language, practise the language; to learn how to start-up a company, start up a company; to learn how to be a salesperson, sell stuff to people. You probably won’t get it right the first time, and you probably won’t get it right the second time. But the more times you do it, the more likely you’ll eventually get it right.
JPL, NASA and Boeing believe that if you haven’t played around with a car’s internals, or fiddled around with electronics, then you can’t problem solve. What matters is what you can do, not what a piece of paper says you can do.
