People are twice as smart as they talk, three times as smart as they write
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People are twice as smart as they talk, three times as smart as they write
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Re: People are twice as smart as they talk, three times as smart as they write
#2I'm going to have a crack at taking this advice on board in future readings or discussions, not because of the logic behind it but because when the author "started doing that, I’ve not only been far calmer, I’ve learned much more too."
The logic seems flawed to me, in that it equates focused with clever. You can be one without the other. Of the two, I'm definitely more clever than focused. I think the value a person contributes is usually the other way around. (Which is why my focus for this year is 'be more focused'.)
Re: People are twice as smart as they talk, three times as smart as they write
#3Words of wisdom from "Figuring Shit Out."
Re: People are twice as smart as they talk, three times as smart as they write
#4quantity != quality, being smarter isn't about how many smart things you say, but about how smart each of them are.
Re: People are twice as smart as they talk, three times as smart as they write
#5quantity != quality, being smarter isn't about how many smart things you say, but about how smart each of them are.
Then there's the problem of the person who only says 1 thing, but it is brilliant. How about quality*quantity?
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#6quantity != quality, being smarter isn't about how many smart things you say, but about how smart each of them are.
Then there's the problem of the person who only says 1 thing, but it is brilliant. How about quality*quantity?
That formula may still have a signals v noise issue since it rewards each equally. How about quantity^quality, which would still factoring in quantity, but exponentially reward quality?
Re: People are twice as smart as they talk, three times as smart as they write
#7He can't be too smart if he thinks that phrases like "2 times smarter" or "3 times smarter" have any meaning. 2 standard deviations above the mean, yes, "2 times smarter" no.
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#8After figuring Shit out, let's hope the author figures out how to scale this website.
Re: People are twice as smart as they talk, three times as smart as they write
#9He can't be too smart if he thinks that phrases like "2 times smarter" or "3 times smarter" have any meaning. 2 standard deviations above the mean, yes, "2 times smarter" no.
It was meant to be somewhat facetious, obviously, there's no such thing as two times as smart.
Incidentally, one of the parts I cut out of that piece was predictions as to what nitpicky points would be raised in the comments and this was, indeed one of them :).
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#10After figuring Shit out, let's hope the author figures out how to scale this website.
I'm at a loss at this point. The server's been hit with higher loads than this and survived fine. It's running Wordpress on Apache on a 512MB slice, there's no reason it should be this slow. Just rebooted it and it's still slow.
If you want to help me debug it, my AIM username is the same as my HN one.