Reid Hoffman: recommendation

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…The labor market recovery from the financial crisis seems to have been especially slow. We had a president, President Obama, whom you think highly of. We have all these social media, including LinkedIn, that ought to bring people together with the right jobs more quickly. And yet the labor market recovery has been so slow. Why is this? There’s two or three reasons. One is, I think, unfortunately, while entrepreneurship is doing quite well in Silicon Valley and a few other places, it’s actually been on the decrease across the US. We need to get back to the formulation of new firms, entrepreneurship across the entire country because that gives you adaptive places where people can go. Another thing is, it’s trite but true that educational systems that encourage what Ben Casnocha and I referred to in The Start-Up of You as being in permanent beta, which is always learning. You need to be learning for the current modern networked age, and to be constantly learning, and make sure as many kids as possible learn that and keep learning because then you can adjust to the new jobs. And some of that’s also creating entrepreneurship and new firms. Those are, I think, among the reasons, and we try to help that with LinkedIn. But it’s a big rock, so the Archimedean lever needs to be particularly strong. What was the philosophy class at Stanford you met Peter Thiel in?…

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