Actually, Bill Gates is quite cool. Oh. Just me thinking that, then?
Bill Gates may lose out to Steve Jobs in the coolness department, but if the Gates Foundation can eradicate malaria in Africa, do you think the Nobel committee will award the prize to the creator of the MacBook Air?
Like, embarrassing.
I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven’t succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.
Outliers may well be excellent, but they still skew your results
This idea — that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice — surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours.
This extract from Malcolm Gladwell’s next book, Outliers investigates what it takes to become the best. In short, it appears to be talent, drive, time, practice — and a massive amount of luck.
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The previous evening, my wife had presented me with one of her quarterly assessments of my progress as a human being, and the results were, as they so often are, disappointing.
Tim Dowling makes me read his whole column out loud, Saturday after Saturday. I suspect his wife may be the most amazing/terrifying human being known to mankind.
Judith Kerr is fabulous
Did pink rabbit, the much-loved toy left behind in Berlin, exist? “Oh yes. It’s eyes came out because my brother played with it. Bastard!â€
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