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The concept “understand” is rooted in utility. It means “I have built a much simpler model which produces usefully accurate predictions, of the thing or behaviour I seek to ‘unders…

I am going to try to tackle this from the positive side, but there's a lot that could be said, and I'm not sure I will be successful. There's no doubt that inherent physical attrac…

Small caps is a typographic technique to balance the appearance of strings of capitals in predominantly lowercase running text. The Economist is applying their style guide. I check…

Merino is just as itchy to me as any other wool, I can't wear any of it touching my skin. Drives me nuts.

“Having contrary opinions” and “being a contrarian” are as similar as “having a glass of milk” and “being a cow”.

I will agree that you are conflating and grossly oversimplifying a number of related but different issues. As a result your conclusions are just not valid. Does the educational sys…

My revelation came when I observed my oldest child in kindergarten (which was nothing like being glued to a seat). My child was the large and obvious behavioural outlier. Then the …

ADHD is real, it deeply damages people's lives and it is usually treatable with stimulants, with an unusual degree of effectiveness. My psychiatrist told me up front that his diagn…

Everyone is different, and it's unfortunate that your friend's experience is not good, and that you don't know anyone with a healthy relationship with their medication. The truth i…

After first diagnosis, under the care of a psychiatrist, I went though a typical escalation over a couple years to reach 80 mg Vyvanse + 15 mg of Dexedrine per day. 50 + 10 at ~5AM…

You are right that ADHD is a true neurological disorder that responds well to medication, but on everything else your are horrifyingly wrong. Medication alone is not a panacea for …

I think being "honest and ethical" is at its heart a useful strategy for organizing the collective work of individuals. It's part of the ethos required for building high-trust grou…

Are you claiming that all authorities, organizations, businesses and experts acted (and are continuing to act) largely in bad faith?

In my model, "tribal membership" is associated to a subconscious response we have to others when we recognize "sameness" at some level, and we subconsciously lower our social trans…

"Easy to work with", "member of the tribe" and "charismatic" are separate categories because the model is intended to embody the truth that social factors dominate, and to give hop…

I don't know. I drive standard. Maybe part of the reason I always stop is because I love a well-executed launch. :-)

Factors 2-4 are meant to be social. Anything functional is covered in 1. I'm not in anyone's tribe and so I had to learn to not exhibit tribal signifiers at work, which I think get…

Those are great points. I have to think about how to incorporate them. I'm thinking that the four are still required to fully exploit the ones you've mentioned.

My formula for success is similar. 1. Be good at your job (aka write good code). 2. Be easy to work with. 3. Be a member of the prevailing tribe. 4. Be charismatic. With all four, …

I'm struggling to respond constructively to your comment. Think about all the phenomena that make up "cognitive ability" and all of the possible dimensions and properties of "cogni…

On a public road I almost always come to a full stop, and if I don't I recognize it as an error. That's the law and there are very good reasons for it. It's an unambiguous standard…

The point I'm trying to make is a corollary to “A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain". It's an acknowledgement that sometimes the customer is bikeshedding …

Are you asserting there's no scope for invention in software development?

Actually, "my" team's job is 1/2 asking the customer, and 1/2 not asking the customer so we can invent stuff they haven't thought of and ideally can't/won't think of. I think the r…

This may be true if you have no aspirations for your software beyond what your customer can imagine in the present. Almost seems like a methodology that has internalized learned he…