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business major was largely a finishing school for entrants into the world of big corporations, gray suits, and standard operating procedures.
Business major reality
Computer science, in contrast, was a major where you actually learned to make things.
Depends on the curriculum, but thesis wise, yes we make stuff in CS
Use a phrasebook to get started; save formal study for later. Use visual mnemonics to memorize vocabulary.
Leaening language effectively means experiencing it first before formally studying it.
the ultralearners had a lot of shared traits. They usually worked alone, often toiling for months and years without much more than a blog entry to announce their efforts.
Above all, they cared about learning.
Ultralearners love and live to learn
inequality rising at the top and lowering at the bottom.2
Lower-skilled jobs, which often require face-to-face contact or social knowledge in the form of cultural or language abilities, are likely to remain.
Our vices are made worse because now they are downloadable, portable, and socially transmissible.
