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The grammar of this headline really bugs me. The author correctly remembers that "None of us" is singular, but then spoils it by throwing in the plural "we're". The correct version would, I think, be "None of us knows what he's doing", although both the feminists and the languagelog folks would complain about that.
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Yeah, according to the author I guess Einstein was "winging it" too.
Don't know why you were downvoted, it's a decent point you make. There are people who dedicated their entire life to an idea or ideal, and succeed _that_ way. Perhaps it's useful to distinguish between "entrepreneurial" success-stories and achievements like Einstein's
But he doesn't stop there:
Even Fortune 500 CEOs, Nobel Prize winners, and U.S. presidents — all are really good at winging it.
Proclaiming Nobel Prize winners in fields like Chemistry or Physics are "winging it" is, frankly, uninformed and insulting.
I don't usually play the part of armchair psychologist, but this essay appears to me to be an excellent example of projection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_bias The author assumes that because he doesn't know what he's doing, other people also don't. I disagree. Sometimes people can know exactly what they're doing, and be fairly confident about the possible consequences. I made a viral hit similar to the a…
Yeah, according to the author I guess Einstein was "winging it" too.
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Yeah, according to the author I guess Einstein was "winging it" too.
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein
Is it just me or is this perhaps taking the story of YouTube Instant a bit far? I mean ya, I guess it got some press and got him a job offer, but it's not like he invented cold fusion or something. It was a cute idea. Can we really draw any kind of real conclusions from it? Seems like that type of success, of a cute meme taking off is actually rather common, it is the longer term, build a sustainable company, king of…
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Don't know why you were downvoted, it's a decent point you make. There are people who dedicated their entire life to an idea or ideal, and succeed _that_ way. Perhaps it's useful to distinguish between "entrepreneurial" success-stories and achievements like Einstein's
Well, yeah, I might give him some slack if he limited it to entrepreneurial success, although I still wouldn't agree with it. He contends the entrepreneurs behind Club Penguin (sold to Disney) or Mint (sold to Intuit) -- or to go old-school, Berkshire Hathaway -- "winged" their way to success. But he doesn't stop there: Even Fortune 500 CEOs, Nobel Prize winners, and U.S. presidents — all are really good at winging i…
I can't speak for Mint, but Scott Cook (who founded Intuit) was definitely winging it:
Hence this exchange a few days back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556295
"He seems to leave virtually no trace (other than awesome software) on the Internet."
"Probably because he spends his time writing awesome software."