Your boss is a mediocrity that is hopefully at least competent. Your employee is a mediocrity that will hopefully do what he’s told, and do it at an acceptable level. And whoever you wouldn’t employee is a mediocrity that is also useless, or even destructive. There are great man out there of course, but …
Tag: Learning
You Can’t NOT Pick Side (And Can’t Avoid Conflict)
There’s knowable and there’s unknowable. Then there’s whether you think it’s knowable or unknowable — whether you think it’s known or not known. When you think it’s knowable and that you know it — you are confident — and confidently take a strong position. But what do you do when it’s unknowable — and you …
LOVE Saying “I WAS WRONG”
What if you were paid for each time you found you were wrong? e.g. $1000 for finding something you were wrong about. another $1000 for finding something else you were wrong about. imagine you fell in love with saying “I WAS WRONG” Can you imagine this making your life better? Your model of reality …
Assess Quality Via Negativa
What someone can’t do reveals more about their ability than what they can do Anyone can do a whole lot of things Anyone can think they know a whole lot of things and think they can do a whole lot of things Anyone can talk big Anything looks easy until you’ve tried and failed …
Strawman Yourself
You can straw-man yourself Straw man fallacy is giving an impression of refuting an argument — rather than actually addressing it. Straw man fallacy is an excellent way of deceiving others or oneself It’s because we often confuse the thing with it’s appearance Furthermore few things in this world are clear and plain …
I Learn From Morons HOW TO LEARN
I learn from morons how morons learn And since I’m a moron — I learn how I learn Because I am a moron there’s someone so much smarter than me that he makes me look like a complete moron he connects the dots 10 times faster and he remembers every dot and he sees …
The Level of Detail
At any given subject you have a certain understanding This understanding could be shallow and general, or it could be deep and detailed There are two reasons why you don’t necessarily always want a high level of detail: -observing, understanding details, then creating a detailed model — are resources-consuming. You may want to devote …
Mockery is Easy (Mockery is a COPE)
Mocking is easy Mockery is even easier than criticism Criticism is already easy: find some fault, focus on it, blow it out of proportions, EASY Sounding smart is easy, being convincing is easy, But mockery is REALLY easy, because ANYTHING can be mocked, Stupid shit and wrong shit can of course be mocked, but even …
Feelings as Intelligence
Feeling is one of the ways you get information But unlike objects you perceive on the outside — or thoughts you verbalize in your mind — feelings are quite intangible Of course we NAMED many feelings But it’s like naming colours. It really lacks detail and precision It’s blue but what shade of blue? It’s …
To Not Be Cynical in the Age of the Internet
EVERYTHING is on the internet today. You can see everything, learning everything. You don’t have to search for knowledge. knowledge finds you. You don’t have to search for experts. experts find you. The barrier of entry has been reduced to 0. Do you know what’s the last barrier of entry? Actually DOING something. Actually testing. …