Original thought is frightening, especially when it comes to big decisions but I think this is a very important decision. Now I know how great thinkers must feel when they truly start to think frightening original powerful ideas.
I have decided not to go to graduate school for Statistics. I want to. But that want is the want of an employee, not an entrepreneur. And I want to be an entrepreneur. This is a maverick move and for the first time in my life I feel like I'm being a true maverick, taking a real risk. Here's the logic.
Developers are plumbers. We build the pipes that move the data. We design the systems. The best of us can do the marketing to gain the attention. Then we scale up and continue the process turning from developer to architect to businessman.
The customers provide the data. The data is the water that flows through the pipes.
The data scientists are the gauges. They measure and slice and dice the data, the water, to instruct the engineers on which way they should go.
But it's the developers that own the pipes and that can change them. It is better to gain a specific expertise in development, building pipes, and then hiring data scientists as opposed to being one yourself.
Data scientists seem to have a much higher probability of being employees and not entrepreneurs. That is not my goal.
It is my familial mindset that leads me to want security, to want to prepare for a higher paying job. But in order to gain something great you must let go of something good, even if that good thing leads to higher pay. You can have a good paying job or you can have enough to significantly help others, you can be an entrepreneur.
I want to be a great entrepreneur therefore I can't be a good employee. It's just the way it is.
Update:
I believe in signs. Today I'm listening to the Diane Rehms show and there is a story about Thomas Edison, someone who I greatly admire, the original Elon Musk, this is a guy I really want to be like. We have some striking similarities. First, Edison was fired often. Second, his monumental success came late in life. His monumental success was the light bulb, though he was a serial inventor (and commercializer of his inventions). He started working on the light bulb at 39. He solved the issue by 46. In a day of instant billionaires I take some inspiration from this. I take it as a sign.
I have decided not to go to graduate school for Statistics. I want to. But that want is the want of an employee, not an entrepreneur. And I want to be an entrepreneur. This is a maverick move and for the first time in my life I feel like I'm being a true maverick, taking a real risk. Here's the logic.
Developers are plumbers. We build the pipes that move the data. We design the systems. The best of us can do the marketing to gain the attention. Then we scale up and continue the process turning from developer to architect to businessman.
The customers provide the data. The data is the water that flows through the pipes.
The data scientists are the gauges. They measure and slice and dice the data, the water, to instruct the engineers on which way they should go.
But it's the developers that own the pipes and that can change them. It is better to gain a specific expertise in development, building pipes, and then hiring data scientists as opposed to being one yourself.
Data scientists seem to have a much higher probability of being employees and not entrepreneurs. That is not my goal.
It is my familial mindset that leads me to want security, to want to prepare for a higher paying job. But in order to gain something great you must let go of something good, even if that good thing leads to higher pay. You can have a good paying job or you can have enough to significantly help others, you can be an entrepreneur.
I want to be a great entrepreneur therefore I can't be a good employee. It's just the way it is.
Update:
I believe in signs. Today I'm listening to the Diane Rehms show and there is a story about Thomas Edison, someone who I greatly admire, the original Elon Musk, this is a guy I really want to be like. We have some striking similarities. First, Edison was fired often. Second, his monumental success came late in life. His monumental success was the light bulb, though he was a serial inventor (and commercializer of his inventions). He started working on the light bulb at 39. He solved the issue by 46. In a day of instant billionaires I take some inspiration from this. I take it as a sign.
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