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I grew up with Imus and Stern so I’ll blame them for all my non-PC observations.
Walking down my street I rarely see Asians outside. Asked Asian neighbor about kids and parents said its so bad once kids they turn 7 because they have to take them to piano lessons, soccer practice, study lessons, volunteer clinics at homeless and women’s abuse shelters, etc. I think I can hear parents screaming at the kids, probably for missing the C(4) note 13 minutes into the Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor. Another Asian down the block got 23xx/2400 on SAT. And the happy white kids are playing baseball, hockey and basketball in the street. Could be that the white kids are talented creative geniuses with photographic memories and don’t need to study 12 hours a day (in grade school) to be succesful like Jobs and Gates?
Most really smart people I knew in college barely did any home work in high school, let alone grade school. Ask all the rich people you know how much they studied in grade school – high school and you’ll find that they were playing wiffle ball, not reading Encylopedia Brown and Evelyn Wood books (Yeah flu, Wood, not Lin)
Anyway, all that studying/college prepping is way overrated because smarter people (managers) hire those hard working nerds from around the world (read commodity) for technical output while they create oompanies and/or move up corporate ladder making important deals at La Costa.[/quote]
I told you guys, Asians are stupid, that’s why they have to study so hard. If they’re smart, they would be like Gates and drop out of college.[/quote]
EQ…Scoreboad buddy. The old playbook of being “manager” and wanting to just manage isn’t going to work. Quite frankly, colleagues and I don’t need any mid-managers that don’t know how to do the work. And “growth” is in asia, not here (just look at the future’s market buddy, and who’s reacting to the prospects of which economies). Look at the folks who are having issues finding employment now. Mid-40ies “project managers” to keep track of tasks/etc. Those that are getting PMI certification taking all that scrum/agile buzzword crap. NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THOSE THINGS IN A STARTUP. I was at a mixer because some brilliant folks decided to put together an “entreneur workshop” in which unemployed people pay $100 for the privilege to work on a an idea, for which the “project manager” can decide on the IP. I was there since one of my buddies wanted to see if any good idea/prospects would be worth funding..Because ideas are great and a dime a dozen, very few had any way of executing. (My friends did manage to steal a few good ideas from some of those group and plan on doing these overseas though, but don’t exactly need all the folks wanting to be “project managers”..
Biggest deals happen in Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, buddy and VC is in Palo Alto. The tech market here is stale frankly, because the common feedback about San Diego is that the talent pool sucks here. That’s why even in this downmarket, Silicon Valley is doing great…Expensive, yes…Hiring expensive? Yes…People who can actually deliver…Yes…La Costa? WTF is this a joke? Biggest deal gets done in Palo Alto. Dude, if you don’t got your Southwest Airlines tickets booked most friday’s for the next 2-3months up to San Jose, you’re not in the game.
