I tell people all the time.. "Do you remember when you could bullshit anyone." Now they just type your BS into their smart phone.
Pre-seed google with your BS and SEO it to page 1.
I Google everything
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Re: I Google everything
#32Great article. A side point, but one that is more interesting to me: in my social circle, I'm the only person who actually Googles everything. When I sit down to have a conversation with most people, and questions about facts come up, I instinctively start Googling. Almost no one else does this. People will prefer to spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of e.g. Greece, rather than spend 5 secon…
What I find funny in that is that when I'm in a social circle, we usually don't have quick access to the Internet.
Is using a phone for browsing (I guess that's the only way you could) during a conversation that common?
Re: I Google everything
#33Great article. A side point, but one that is more interesting to me: in my social circle, I'm the only person who actually Googles everything. When I sit down to have a conversation with most people, and questions about facts come up, I instinctively start Googling. Almost no one else does this. People will prefer to spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of e.g. Greece, rather than spend 5 secon…
And they don't seem much interested in the answer when I provide it, actually.
I'm the sort of person who would happily spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of Greece and frown upon anybody who tried to Google it. I like the fun, social 'game' of trying to work out random stuff from a few first principles . Having someone Google for it and tell me is like someone telling me the ending of a movie. Sure it saves me the two hours having to sit though the movie, but it kind of misses the point. It's not like I actually care about what the population of Greece is.
Re: I Google everything
#34Great article. A side point, but one that is more interesting to me: in my social circle, I'm the only person who actually Googles everything. When I sit down to have a conversation with most people, and questions about facts come up, I instinctively start Googling. Almost no one else does this. People will prefer to spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of e.g. Greece, rather than spend 5 secon…
Interestingly this happens with a certain group of friends as well. They are high-school educated people that have no intention of attending a post-secondary institution. As a corollary, another group of friends that have attended a post-secondary institution are usually the first to join in my quest for facts on Google or Wikipedia.
That's interesting, but completely counter to my experience. I finally discovered that my most intelligent friends (programmers, teachers, businesspeople) enjoyed the challenge of reasoning to an answer, and felt a sense of triumph and join accomplishment when they got the answer (however close or far they were when they grabbed an iPhone to check their work). They cherished the shared experience, and remember it fondly.
They couldn't give two shits that I had wikipedia.
Re: I Google everything
#35Great article. A side point, but one that is more interesting to me: in my social circle, I'm the only person who actually Googles everything. When I sit down to have a conversation with most people, and questions about facts come up, I instinctively start Googling. Almost no one else does this. People will prefer to spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of e.g. Greece, rather than spend 5 secon…
Interestingly this happens with a certain group of friends as well. They are high-school educated people that have no intention of attending a post-secondary institution. As a corollary, another group of friends that have attended a post-secondary institution are usually the first to join in my quest for facts on Google or Wikipedia.
For what it's worth me and all my friends have post-secondary education and we all consider looking stuff up on the phone at the pub bad form and only to be done if after we've either come up with a valid guess or are completely stumped after having given it our best shot.
Re: I Google everything
#36I tell people all the time.. "Do you remember when you could bullshit anyone." Now they just type your BS into their smart phone.
It was a simpler time. You could misinform just about anybody about anything. Yoko Ono? Sure, her influence in the Beatles would arguably ruin them forever, but after John Lennon's death she went on to invent Skittles. It's an art now though. You have to pick little tidbits that SOUND plausible but you can never really verify. I, for example, told my (American) flatmate months ago that no living person other than cur…
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_the... what you said did used to be approximately correct.
Re: I Google everything
#37I tell people all the time.. "Do you remember when you could bullshit anyone." Now they just type your BS into their smart phone.
Now they just type your BS into their smart phone...
... and click "Save" :)
It's unbelievable how many "facts" nowadays lead to some lone blog or wiki article with no references.
Re: I Google everything
#38Great article. A side point, but one that is more interesting to me: in my social circle, I'm the only person who actually Googles everything. When I sit down to have a conversation with most people, and questions about facts come up, I instinctively start Googling. Almost no one else does this. People will prefer to spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of e.g. Greece, rather than spend 5 secon…
What I find funny in that is that when I'm in a social circle, we usually don't have quick access to the Internet. Is using a phone for browsing (I guess that's the only way you could) during a conversation that common?
At work when sitting down with co-workers for lunch every single one of us programmers will grab our phones when it comes to fact looking up time. We won't spend time arguing about it, we won't spend time trying to reason through something, we simply look it up, and move on to the next topic of conversation.
Re: I Google everything
#39Great article. A side point, but one that is more interesting to me: in my social circle, I'm the only person who actually Googles everything. When I sit down to have a conversation with most people, and questions about facts come up, I instinctively start Googling. Almost no one else does this. People will prefer to spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of e.g. Greece, rather than spend 5 secon…
And they don't seem much interested in the answer when I provide it, actually. I'm the sort of person who would happily spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of Greece and frown upon anybody who tried to Google it. I like the fun, social 'game' of trying to work out random stuff from a few first principles . Having someone Google for it and tell me is like someone telling me the ending of a movi…
Yes, Fermi Problems are a favorite past-time of programmers everywhere. Including me - I love them.
I'm talking about cases where trying to solve a Fermi problem wasn't the context.
Re: I Google everything
#40Great article. A side point, but one that is more interesting to me: in my social circle, I'm the only person who actually Googles everything. When I sit down to have a conversation with most people, and questions about facts come up, I instinctively start Googling. Almost no one else does this. People will prefer to spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of e.g. Greece, rather than spend 5 secon…
And they don't seem much interested in the answer when I provide it, actually. I'm the sort of person who would happily spend an entire conversation trying to guess the population of Greece and frown upon anybody who tried to Google it. I like the fun, social 'game' of trying to work out random stuff from a few first principles . Having someone Google for it and tell me is like someone telling me the ending of a movi…
If we discuss an issue that depends on the size of the population of Greece but isn't about the Greece population, there's no point to waste time for a guess. We should get the right number from Google in a second, and move on to the core issue.
Most of my conversation are about ideas and strategies, not characteristics. Like 98% of them. Maybe a little less, let say 96.5%. Or 95%, what do you think?