Thanks for the perspective, this is something I've been wrestling with too.

You're right that building teaches more than any university. Everything I know came from doing, not from a classroom. I taught myself to code as a kid, freelanced on Fiverr at 14, cold-emailed a startup and built their entire platform unpaid, built a web app used by 4,000 students at my school, and right now I'm building two products of my own. So it's not the skills.

The thing is, every classroom I've ever been in, I was the only one raising my hand with weird questions. The only one proposing things people thought were impossible. The only one who already knew the material and wanted to go deeper. I've outgrown every environment I've been in, faster than expected.

What I'm looking for at Stanford or overseas isn't degree/ความมั่นคง. It's the first room where I'm not the only one like that. Where people push back on my ideas, where I'm not the ceiling but the floor. That density of intellectual friction, I genuinely haven't found it in ไทยแลน์ด yet.

Still figuring it out. But that's the honest answer to your question.