“Soft” degrees vs. STEM

Alexei Sorokin
3 min readDec 11, 2021

I believe the “soft” degrees will be the most important in the future.

Of course, I appreciate the importance of science and the incredible technological progress we’re witnessing. It wouldn’t have been possible without multiple generations of scientists and computer entrepreneurs laboring relentlessly on their once-crazy ideas.

Still though I’m not rushing to send my kids to extra-curricular coding or “STEM” (science, technology, engineering, maths) classes. In fact, I’ve missed that train already and I was well aware of that train while living in Silicon Valley…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/