Sounds like the start of a plan. My questions would be around those 10 minutes at the entry door. What do we do with people? How are they connected to the test? How do we keep separation between people? How do we grant access after the passed test? What happens to those around if someone is +ve?
No argument with the premise or results. That said, if I were to advise a 16 yo self, I would include consideration for skilled trades. A plumber/electrician/hvac specialist with decent business/accounting/bookkeeping skills can pretty much write their own ticket past apprenticeship.
same day is ridiculous. what's next? are they going to have convenience stores disguised as trucks roaming the neighbourhood waiting for me to realize halfway through making tacos that I have no sour cream?
I can only think of the value of your list of active customers. That's a targeted bunch ... and you already what they have and, perhaps more importantly, what they don't have. Press on!
Here's my generalization ... CS students aspire to be good architects, self-taught aspire to be good programmers. The caveat - experience and aptitude combine to blur the groups.
The last 2 articles I read were this one and the earlier piece on Google and neural nets [1]. It's easy to connect the two, add the pervasive integration of technology in our lives, mix in a healthy dose of paranoia --> see a SkyNet future.
Lesson learned from having 3 kids in hockey: Until you reach a level of "good enough" to participate in "the game", its not much fun. Once there, the better you get, the more fun it becomes and turns into a virtuous circle of try_harder->get_better->more_fun->try_harder->get_better ...
I keep reading the lego comparisons but i think that's staying a little too inside the box. Block for block, if you will. A better comparison is "Minecraft is the digital equivalent of playing in the sandbox".
Thing is, for people who can understand its benefits (which are great) it is hard not to advocate. I remember the father of a friend in grade school giving advice to learn languages (spoken languages). He knew a few and obviously witnessed the benefit for life and business. 20 years later, that was good advice.
