While this is a good read. I think what differentiates the top 5% of the bell curve(people at MIT) in terms of success is probably different from what differentiates the rest of the bell curve.
For instance what accounts for the variation in play between a bunch of 7 foot tall basketball players is not what separates them from a gentleman of 5'5. Most research backs this up. The gap in achievement between an IQ of 115->130 is far large than 145->160.
The summary is that very intelligent people do not seem to have any unique genetic or environmental factors that explain that, they just happen to be at the edge of the bell curve. This is not true of very unintelligent people; there are lots of genetic and environmental factors that can decrease intelligence.
From the abstract: "We found that high intelligence is familial, heritable, and caused by the same genetic and environmental factors responsible for the normal distribution of intelligence."
The story highlights that 'smartness' is linked more to a learning mentality then actually knowing a lot of things.
Humility.
Similarly to the study shared in the OP, if you tell yourself that you are good at something, you are less likely to try hard, thats when you'll fall behind. I read a book that shared a story like this recently, 'David and Goliath' by Malcolm Gladwell.
> And I put that in quotes because "smart" is really just a way of saying "has invested so much time and sweat that you make it look effortless."
When you look up at smart people that have succeeded in their career. It's certainly because they worked so hard to get there.
I've learned a lot about that reading another book of Gladwell, "The Outliers". Which is one of my favorite book. One of the story is about a genius who is still living in his mom's basement because he lacks the social traits of other successful intelligent people. I think I will check your "David and Goliath" book.
Also, from the reddit comment, what I got is that he reached out. He asked for help around. Most things are hard to learn by yourself, and if not a book, people around you are the most likely to help. It helps being humble, when asking for help.
This (and other) Google status pages always impress me.
Starting out with when the problem was discovered, and then followed through with regular updates until it's resolution.
A simple "Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 6/4/14 12:39 PM with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience." goes a long way, and makes me feel better about using their services as a result.
Agreed; and on the other hand status pages which are way too slow to update piss me off worse than having no status page.
Xbox Live is terrible for this; the service can be down for an entire region for a few hours before they update the status page. Being absolutely sure the service is having issues (because you have the technical knowledge to diagnose that the problem is not on your side or your ISP's side, and you are seeing lots of independent reports of it on forums/subreddits) and going to a status page where everything is happily green for an hour or more after you notice the issue as a user is something I personally find to be rage inducing.
Certainly a first world problem, but if you're going to run status pages please implement policies to actually keep them current!
It looks nice. I will give it that, but $5 bucks seems a little much for a notes app that can't sync across platforms as far as I can tell... not even iCloud.
Evernote, Springpad, Simplenote, and even Google Keep for iOS (when it is finally release) have syncing from the get go.
Biased, sarcastic, and condescending... why do people visit this guys website again?
You may have answered your own question. Gruber is to Apple Blogging what Howard Stern was to radio back in the day. I said this a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911378
Why do people continue to upload and trust their data to this company? I closed my Dropbox account back in 2011 when they had that 'bug' that made passwords for any account optional for four hours.
Since then they have had more security problems/breaches, and admitted to user info being stolen.
Today's news isn't anything concrete... but their moderators were jerks, which makes the company look bad whether they are employees or not.
There is no Google Drive linux client yet =/. What about the others? I use Dropbox on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and I have even used it on a personal server. I have not seen anything that can replace it.
The line "If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone." applies to both Glass and smart watches equally.
Both are wearable screens augmenting your phone, though the Glass has additional features, like voice commands and a camera
"If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone." is not a valid argument against google glass is what he is implying. The same can be said about pebble.
Seems like it will be quite possible with Glass to ditch the full phone and go with a mobile hotspot. By doing calls over that we can push the carriers into what they should be (according to so many geeks these days), dumb pipes.
Heck, keep the hotspot in a bag or make a wearable, unobtrusive hotspot belt or anklet, then the battery size & life can be increased while still having no gadgets in one's pockets. One could put a widrive on the belt/anklet too, so Glass becomes useful even without constant access to the cloud.
...at least until the technology becomes small enough. Though I'm not sure it would be good to keep a GPS/GSM/3G/LTE antenna blaring next to your skull the whole day.
A friend of mine has a Facebook account for his dog.... tags pictures of him with the dog, and captions the photos: "This is my human... he picks up my poop hehe"
My head hurts when I think that 82,999,999 more of these accounts exist.
I prefer the term: Productivity Trap... and I have seen friends fall in to it. They will read and talk about new "exciting" GTD systems, and better ways to organize themselves.
I've seen them switch from: 'Things' to 'Evernote' to 'Omnifocus' to 'Trello' in the span of two or three months.
I'm all for being a more productive and organized person, but with all the time they spent migrating their tasks/projects to different task management systems, they could have just completed everything on their lists and more.
