is "college dropout" really anything special these days?
College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek
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#32The title was misleading in the sense that the article in itself is much more than about creativity. I thought it had more to do with emotions, psychology and effects.
After reading the whole article, I am in awe of how he knows kids so well!
I feel sorry that creative professor mother + phd math father did only so much for their son, putting their own pursuits first instead.
But I guess that is how today's world is and will be.
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#33This is a somewhat old article. It's also very, very long. It's also one of the greatest newspaper feature stories I've ever read. It was passed around the writers' circles I was part of when the Post ran it years ago. Here's the gist (from memory): 1. Guy has a gift for connecting with little kids. 2. Guy has good sense of humor. 3. Guy decides to do magic shows at pre-school birthday parties for a living. 4. Guy ta…
Thanks for the summary. This useless fluff piece lost me after the first page.
'This useless fluff piece'
I think your getting the wrong idea. A picture of a cat with a caption on it is a usesless fluff piece, a blog post of a video with someone talking about code is a fluff piece.
This isn't an article about start ups or code; but this article I'd argue will give you more as a human, as a entrepreneur, as a family member, as a citizen then any article you'd get from d2h or 37signals.
This article helps you use your brain in ways that people with engineering degrees have a hard time grasping sometimes. Sure you understand the deep intricacies of x programming language or you've got a really cool app, but it doesn't mean you understand people.
Almost every theory of intelligences says that there is more then one way to be a genius, be it in math, art, people, sports anything. And almost all theories will agree that people who are extremely smart in one area and never apply the brain outside of their specialty can be practically retarded in the other parts.
I've been thinking a whole bunch about this lately, as I go to an Engineering School and the sentiment is that Art Majors and Athletes and English majors are idiots cause they most likely won't be making money when they graduate.
I've been trying to make an argument that even they will agree to and understand, but to ask people to change their mind is like asking a rock to be more like sand.
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#34Flagged. Come on, really?
Yeah, really.
Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek
#35This is a somewhat old article. It's also very, very long. It's also one of the greatest newspaper feature stories I've ever read. It was passed around the writers' circles I was part of when the Post ran it years ago. Here's the gist (from memory): 1. Guy has a gift for connecting with little kids. 2. Guy has good sense of humor. 3. Guy decides to do magic shows at pre-school birthday parties for a living. 4. Guy ta…
The author of the article also won the Pulitzer for writing this brilliant piece about skill, art, and modern life: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...
I've read it before, but this is too is worth a second look.
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#36I remember when this came out in the Post mag a couple years ago here. I still don't get why they had to take a nice light-hearted story and dig up all of that dirt about the guy's gambling problem...it seemed sensationalist and completely irrelevant.
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#37"You could just have a party where you all played pin the tail on the donkey or musical chairs or something. But that is just not done in this part of D.C. If you did that, you would be talked about." That's a microcosm of what I didn't like about DC. The culture is very status oriented and judgmental.
That comment totally struck me while reading the article. I thought, "Wow, what an awful and fake little world that must be."
God forbid you be "talked about!"
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Answered my own question. He's still in business: http://www.thegreatzucchini.com/index.html
What's interesting about his page is that it doesn't even show his face on the front, just dozens of happy, delighted pre-schoolers. The man knows what he's really selling to parents.
He does show his face on the "More Info" page, though.
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#39Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek
#40I like how careful he is with the tone he's writing. For instance, the story about the people across the hall; he doesn't let it blow up in your face, and he doesn't just let the air out of it either; he reels it in like a fisherman, letting a key detail out early, but still landing it with a climax.
Thanks for posting this. I had no idea about this guy, now I'm trying to track down everything he's written.