College is dying. I’m not referring to the institutions — those will probably survive for a few more decades. I’m referring to the paradigm. A paradigm where in order to acquire education you have to: Select a single field of study. Part with mobility and optionality + tens of thousands of dollars. Commit to a 4-year investment while having little clue how your chosen field works in the real world. Have a central planner dictate what’s worth learning within your field. Have teachers assigned to you with little room for choice. Focus on the theoretical over the practical, memorization over problem-solving. Learn from people without skin in the game. Rely on a document provided by an institution to prove that you learned something. Despite the shortcomings above, going to college has been a smart choice for every generation prior to millennials. But over the past 15 years, two trends have made this decision a lot more questionable: the price increased, the value decreased. Let’s start