Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel, How to Avoid the Trap of FEAR, & Why do so Many Employers Require a Degree?
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Peter Thiel is secretly the most important person in Silicon Valley. Heâs this behind the scenes player, who is behind so many of the really important things that have happened over the last two decades.
Obviously Facebook is one of the worldâs largest companies; a lot of people think itâs uniquely bad for the world. And a lot of people are super skeptical of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebookâs CEO. And of course, Thiel is behind Facebook. He was the first outside money in the company.
He is also the person who basically set up Mark Zuckerberg to be Mark Zuckerberg and turned him into this imperial CEO, who is now, arguably more powerful than a lot of world leaders.
A lot of people are really excited about cryptocurrency and you can connect it back to to PayPal, which is the company that Thiel co-founded in the late 1990s with an explicitly libertarian ethos.
Source: Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be
Fear is a fundamental emotion that is wired deeply inside each of us.
This emotion has successfully managed to evolve itself to protect organisms against any perceived threat to their integrity or existence.
My first recollection of this emotion goes back to my childhood when I was about four years old. I, along with my gang of tiny tots, found our way onto the terrace of a seven-story newly constructed building.
The boundary of the terrace was still not erected completely, so we had an amazingly clear top view from a height that was refreshingly new to those tiny legs.
First time in my life, I could feel a bittersweet tingling sensation right at the center of both my feet. It was similar but distinct from the one used by my mom on me while waking me up from an afternoon siesta.
Source: How to Avoid the Trap of FEAR
While companies scramble to find talent amid perceived âskills gapsâ and âlabor shortages,â their job postings exclude millions of qualified Americans. These applicants do not face this dispiriting experience because of race, ethnicity, gender, age or disability â these reasons would be illegal, and rightly so. Instead, they are excluded because theyâre among the roughly two-thirds of U.S. workers who lack a bachelorâs degree.
Employers will never discover their aptitudes and mind-sets since they screen out these applicants before assessing their skills. Degree discrimination is not illegal, but it is a damaging bias thatâs blinding companies to talent they need and reinforcing existing economic inequalities.
Source: The majority of Americans lack a college degree. Why do so many employers require one?
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Piyush Kamal
Ex-IRS, Economist, and a Published Author who loves to play at the intersection of Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophy.
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