A couple of notes on terminology—particularly this book’s title, Smart People Should Build Things. We’re using educational attainment as an imperfect proxy for “smart” and talking about people who get tracked, sorted, and aggregated throughout their adolescence into various universities and courses of study. For example, Shilpi Kumar is a recent graduate of Duke University with a degree in neuroscience. This book will oversimplify matters by focusing on people like Shilpi who get identified as “smart” or “talented” via our national educational system. It’s clear that there are different forms
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