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Well yes. Yes. Of course, it's a bit of a jump isn't it? I mean, er, data analyst to lion taming in one go. You don't think it might be better if you worked your way towards lion taming, say, via machine learning?
There are vastly worse things to be than boring.
I find it mildly entertaining that someone had to do a study to come to this conclusion
Studies show that I too am boring.
What people think is extremely influenced by pop culture. Programming was boring, coding is cool. Investing is boring, VC is cool. Being a lawyer was boring, being a lawyer is cool.
There are vastly worse things to be than boring.
For someone with full blown ADHD. There isn’t much worse then being bored. It feels like a physical pain so much so that I’ll take a considerable amount of physical pain over being bored.
I think for many people the definition of boring is: - anything that I don't understand - anything that forces me to think
- even if I learned it, nobody in my social circle would care
Twenty years later I got a subscription to the New Yorker and they ran a regular business column (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/james-surowiecki) . Almost every one was super interesting. Decision making under uncertainty, leveraged buyouts, and all kinds of stuff that was worth thinking about.
These days, someone here turned me on to Matt Levine's newsletter (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...). I never thought that finance could regularly be laugh out loud fun. Who knew?
I'm a college professor. I sometimes tell the Business folks that they could do with a lesson in marketing. They smile, a little, and change the subject. I think they are so flooded with folks that it is not really of interest. Too bad.