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Personal thoughts on having expiration dates for degrees
By Growing your tree of prosperity  •  March 5, 2022
Recently a local politician kicked a hornet's nest by suggesting that degrees have an expiration date. If he is right, I will have no degrees by the end of this year. I am actually cheesed that some really smart folks actually agree with him arguing that people tend to forget what they learn within a few years after graduation. I have a different crypto-based argument. Imagine you've accumulated a number of NFTs in your wallet. Some dickwad who collected enough governance tokens start proposing that all NFTs minted more than 5 years ago can no longer be moved out of any wallet. Would you be angry if you've paid good crypto for your NFTs? Invalidating someone's expertise is not the job of a government, it's the job of HR and the reality is that we already face a virtual expiry given the kind of degrees we earned. The worse case, maybe no one wants to buy your NFT because n...
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By Growing your tree of prosperity
I have recently completed my Juris Doctor and I am waiting to be called by the Singapore Bar. For the past 15 years I was an IT manager and I have worked in multinationals, financial exchanges, trade unions and even a government agency. I started my career as an AS/400 administrator and moved on to manage IT projects and operations
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