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- the really good people you want to hire are weirdos with high intrinsic motivation - in the 90-10s these were STEM people, they turned out to be great - now STEM is the conventional choice and humanities is for the weirdos - each "death of the humanities" thinkpiece shifts the balance further

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

5/7/26, 2:54 pm0 reposts0 likes

Rob Knight

@root.guru

5 July

Honestly you knew this was going to happen as soon as you could see kids preparing to chase CS degrees so that they could one day work for Google

Rob Knight

@root.guru

5 July

Back in that 90s-10s era, STEM really *was* underrated and unfashionable, the boomer ascendancy really did want to think "we won the cold war so our kids could study poetry, damnit", and a good STEM degree was a strong signal of "smart and self-motivated". This may now be out of date!