Agreed. This is maybe the most important question that isn’t addressed in the post. There are lots of people and organizations offering young people advice of varying quality, and if Jonah and Vipul want to reach lots of people they need to send a strong signal among all of this noise that people will notice and pay attention to. (The quality of the advice is not such a signal; presumably if the target population could distinguish between good and bad advice then they wouldn’t need this service.)
One response to this is that even though there’s a lot of competition for people’s attention in general, if one restricts to a niche population, there’s much less competition. Do you think that there’s a lot of advice aimed specifically intellectually gifted young people? What are some examples of such sources? (We know of some, e.g. College Confidential — I’m curious as to whether you know ones that we haven’t come across, or haven’t thought of.)
Agreed. This is maybe the most important question that isn’t addressed in the post. There are lots of people and organizations offering young people advice of varying quality, and if Jonah and Vipul want to reach lots of people they need to send a strong signal among all of this noise that people will notice and pay attention to. (The quality of the advice is not such a signal; presumably if the target population could distinguish between good and bad advice then they wouldn’t need this service.)
Thanks.
One response to this is that even though there’s a lot of competition for people’s attention in general, if one restricts to a niche population, there’s much less competition. Do you think that there’s a lot of advice aimed specifically intellectually gifted young people? What are some examples of such sources? (We know of some, e.g. College Confidential — I’m curious as to whether you know ones that we haven’t come across, or haven’t thought of.)