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Ha! I thought everyone without images had a sort of stylized geometric visualization instead of images, but maybe different people 'substitute' differently, some with music, some w…

That's easy to answer without images. Either by reasoning your way out of it, or more plausibly, with this kind of 'geometrical imagery' that comes instead of images. I 'see' a sor…

This is not about memory, it is about what you can access consciously. Those of us who have no image in our minds have memories of our houses, cars, friends, etc. just like you do …

This is supposed to be a 'condition' and an 'inability'? I have this and have always associated it with an enhanced ability to think abstractly, and more generally intellectual fac…

There is little point in an argument for or against a supposed 10k rule. The point is about the balance between genetics and practice, and the article makes a cogent argument that …

Err... no? "chess players differed greatly in the amount of deliberate practice they needed to reach a given skill level in chess. For example, the number of hours of deliberate pr…

Concerning your: "the Project Management Tools that are out there weren't making us happy. In fact we hated the whole lot of them. Bloated, slow, ugly to look at and unintuitive, w…

how do you reconcile "I don't know any good reasons for using Bayesian methods" with the fact that Bayesian methods revolutionized spam-filtering? (or maybe you disagree they did?)…

even apart from the difficulty of "fire fast" that you point out, how does one reconcile "Hire friends and friends of friends" and "fire fast" without bringing rampant destruction …

Much of what you write here is perceptive, until: "Things are terrible right now for cognitive 1-percenters who want meaningful, interesting work (i.e. an upper middle class salary…