Intelligence is the ability to predict. Learning is taking the results of past predictions and applying it to future predictions. Stupidity is ignoring the results that don’t match your predictions. Therefore, it seems there are a lot of stupid people. I’m always amazed at how passionately attached people can become to a political ideology. Capitalists […]
11 Easy Ways to Improve Memory
Helping me on the site today is Todd Goldfarb. He wrote this guest post and is a writer at We the Change. As we get older, the neurons in our brain lose elasticity making it easier to forget things. Although this is an unfortunate reality all humans face, there are a myriad of lifestyle activities […]
Friday Links 07-11-02
From the Web College is for Socializing – Ben does a great job summarizing my number one reason for going to college: meeting people. I’ve found the knowledge that can be acquired in University is decent, but fairly inefficient compared with reading books and practicing in the real world. But the opportunities to work on […]
How to Run Life as a Science Experiment
I love numbers. I’d much rather have data than opinions. Is exercising once a day better than twice a week? What page layout will get the most conversions? Does GTD actually help you get more done? You could consult “experts” for answers to these questions. But I’m going to start off saying something that might […]
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