QuickWire: Southern Cal Starts Center on Computer Programming’s Social History

It has nothing to do with revolutionary ideas—that is romantic crap from professors.  It has to do with the priority in POWER and EFFECTIVENESS of motive over capability.  Colleges neurotically wedded themselves to mere capability centuries ago—shame on them.  Their own research shows monthly that motive beats capability eventually always.   People leave college when they individually discover this for themselves.   At least that is what the VERY few studies have so far shown.   The decision point for Gates etc. was a conviction that “capability can always be hired” “vision and motive” cannot be hired.  

The problem with the Spencer people’s article above is—–OF COURSE the one or two visionaries GENERATE something so big it hires 150 MBAs and other grads of programs who have traded in motive and vision for “skills and capabilities” YUK. OF course. That is silly. Their “research” is entirely phony at this point, not to diminish several great studies they have done in the past. That WHOLE POINT is one person so motivated and envisioned as to drop the “security” of a college degree (something there just for income for colleges by the way), will accumulate big enough somethings that those somethings get packed with 150 degree holders lacking vision and motive–underlings in effect. If you have the gumption to drop that sort of security, by definition, you will end up leading hundreds borrowing direction in life and force for aims from you. DUH……we do not need correlational games from research universities for this sort of commonsense. Phony research indeed. Spencer needs to up its quality of thought quite a bit—getting droopy in the last 6 years or so, it seems to me.