I find this idea by Scott Adams very interesting. Designer Degrees. In essence it is a curated degree by some fancy notable (he uses Warren Buffet as an example). In a way we are starting to see this in the tertiary education sector with student industry programs. The Americans are taking it a step further with corporate support in university courses.

In a way, university courses are already a Designer Degree.  A board of academics have curated a degree structure that has attempted to meed the needs of the profession or academic field. The thought of a purely industry outcome based degree irks me, there is an expectation that doing a university degree is meant to developed well rounded critical thinking and analytic”analytical skial skills.  If we really wanted a perfectly suited training structure to suit a particular role, the private firm should conduct the training themselves (or at least subsisdise it).

Would we classify self-help books as a curated development class?  If I read end-to-end Donald Trump’s “10 Easy Steps to Become a Millionaire”  I deserve some sort of parchment, surely. A successful person’s recipe for success, and by extension their outlook on life, is not a one size fits all solution.  In fact, if we were to over emphasise this “3 steps to happiness” mentality we may just become our own enemies.