I solved P=NP, Voynich, the stock market, consciousness, & Ricky McCormick cipher. Now nobody will hire me.
Yes, yes. If you’re saying “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof,” then skip down to the Stock Market section below, and consider this the first in a series of articles on “How I solved problems X, Y, and Z.”
Otherwise, I plan to abuse my platform to point out that nobody is hiring “the best and the brightest” like they claim, and to express my deepest sympathy for others who are not getting hired despite their own unique talents. They don’t know how to identify you, and they don’t know how to leverage you when they do. The risk averse far prefer building companies from replaceable cogs over envisioning some unique configuration of snowflakes that would render you an irreplaceable linchpin (who can then demand higher compensation). This risk aversion has steadily increased since 9/11:
How can we know that the risk averse want replaceable cogs, not the “best and the brightest”? Look no further than the increasing adoption of personality tests, which tell employers whether you’re a leader or a lemming. If the execs see you’re exec material, they don’t want the competition and automatically toss you.
