It’s clear: The world is demanding more in the way of credentials, more in the way of ability, and it is passing along most of the higher rewards to a relatively small cognitive elite.
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We scrutinize people so exhaustively for signs of proven competence that we may be losing the ability to do anything else. All we see are past credentials.
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Transcripts, credentials, and job history still matter, but they aren’t the whole show anymore.
