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There's a lot of silliness in college that goes away when you get your first job and have to take on more consequential and realistic priorities.

We've had bubble over the past 20 years where big tech companies and news organizations have indulged the silliness internally to reduce friction for the graduates they hire but that is drying up with the economic downturn. We're reverting to the mean.



People have said that for 15 years now. But these people run HR departments in virtually every medium sized and up organization in America.




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