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Am I crazy to think that cutting the world in "US" and "the rest" is profoundly dumb? I mean, putting in the same bag Benin, China and Germany? did anybody loose his mind?
Did you read his argument, or are you just upset that your favorite country was lumped in with your least-favorite country? I think, for the very limited category described in the article, that this is not outrageous.
Not having read Outliers, I can't really comment on the argument presented here. However, I found it rather... odd?... that he chose Martha's Vinyard as his example destination for a private pilot, who would need to "check the weather, ..., and decide whether the risks are a reasonable match for his or her skills and equipment", considering that there was a very famous plane crash under similar circumstances, of whic…
One of my readers pointed me to this discussion. The Martha's Vineyard reference was just a typical destination for folks at our flight school. There is no point in renting an airplane to go to Providence; it is quicker to drive! There is no point in renting an airplane to go to New York City; the car service from Teterboro costs more than the Amtrak ticket from Boston. Block Island, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Mon…
It is interesting that in the past, Gladwell has talked about how it takes 10,000 hours of real effort for someone to get effortlessly good at something. Here Greenspun is talking the same point.
The 10,000 hours thing is actually early on in the same book.