Hi everyone welcome to the A6 and Z podcast today's episode is all about education

it's based on a conversation that took place last month between Mark

Andresen and Dylan Field CEO of Figma as part of an interview series they hosted for

back to school and we're running it here as part of our post-Labor day

back-to-school week theme with Mark. Earlier this week we also ran another Q&A he did on

productivity scheduling, reading habits, and more. This Q&A which originally

appeared as a video covers the purpose, past, and present of education, briefly touching on the current

pandemic and its impact. It goes into the costs and economics of education,

everything from student loans in the debt crisis, government funding, industry cost disease,

credentialing and accreditation capture and more to the trade-offs of what's often been

described as hard and soft degrees when it comes to making money and assessing skills

objectively to finally sharing lots of advice for students and others contemplating

change in their careers and especially how to show your work and get noticed.

Well throughout the episode, threading the tricky question of what to make of those who have considered

dropping out, delaying or skipping school to go straight to field work or startup.

The conversation was actually inspired by students in the Figma design community

who were contemplating the decision of whether to go back to school earlier this summer and is part of their

broader and free program to help make design accessible to all. For links to

Figma's community of students and other resources, please see the show notes

and go to figma.com

slash education. For more in our education series and archives you can go

to a six and z.com slash education.

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