Re:Are smart people overrated?
by jallmann on Friday December 24, 2010 @04:04AM
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"Give me six words written by any man and I will find reason in them to hang him." --Cardinal Richelieu
> He is just like most other journalist and historian - seemingly wise because of post-hoc analysis but incapable of actual prediction.
No, but he tells an interesting story very well. Point, counterpoint, point. I wouldn't take Gladwell's words (or anyone's) as gospel, but I found this genuinely fascinating. I'll be damned that if isn't a tantalizing portrait of Enron, even more so because you know what happened to them at the end. It sounds like someplace I would want to work.
And I learned a few things from this, so what's the harm?
> He is just like most other journalist and historian - seemingly wise because of post-hoc analysis but incapable of actual prediction.
No, but he tells an interesting story very well. Point, counterpoint, point. I wouldn't take Gladwell's words (or anyone's) as gospel, but I found this genuinely fascinating. I'll be damned that if isn't a tantalizing portrait of Enron, even more so because you know what happened to them at the end. It sounds like someplace I would want to work.
And I learned a few things from this, so what's the harm?