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But I also want you to have your goals and your dreams, and I want you to win. And to have all of that, something will have to give, for now.
But all the stuff they don’t and can’t teach you in college—how to thrive in the workplace, how to create something amazing, how to deal with managers and eventually become one—it all slaps you in the face the second you step off campus. No matter how much you learn in school, you still need to get the equivalent of a PhD in navigating the rest of the world and building something meaningful. You have to try and fail and learn by doing.
There was. Slowly at first, then more and more rapidly, Usenet became living proof of a prediction that Lick and Bob Taylor had made back in 1968, in their article on the computer as a communications device: "Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity."
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
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