![]() I’m no better than any of these people and this is why I’m interested in writing about it. They want to know the answers to the test. Most college students ask me one type of question: □ You Still Need To Know How To Hack Tests, But Its Not The Only Game It wasn’t until about 2014 when I started to see new possibilities emerge. ![]() This certainly resonates with my own perspective as I graduated college and early in my career. In the mid-twentieth century, when the economy was composed of oligopolies, the only way to the top was by playing their game. I suspect many people implicitly assume that working in a field with bad tests is the price of making lots of money. Graham argues that many people follow these paths because they accept “this is the way things work.” Even the uncertainty of winning a training contract was off-set by how formulaic a process it was to land one: attend work experience, attend a summer scheme, talk-up made up extra-curricular activities etc. Life’s existential fears are traded for certainty. The great thing about choosing a career like law is that the steps are laid out for you. In a guest post here on Boundless, Ranjit shared how he stumbled upon the easy-to-follow “test” of breaking into BigLaw: Graham talks about “bad tests” – ones that incentivize people to re-orient their entire attention towards doing well on the test as the primary goal. There are certainly big chunks of the world where the way to win is to hack the test. Paul Graham’s recent essay “Lesson to Unlearn” helped articulate something I’ve been thinking about for the past several years.
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