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07 Mar 09
Springing the inner outlier « Gardner Writes
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o of course I decided on something a bit over-ambitious and assigned a long, rambling, urgent, personal, repetitive, provocative book called The Black Swan.
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Assuming there is something desirable in being an average man, he must have an unspecified specialty in which he would be more gifted than other people–he cannot be average in everything.A pianist would be better on average at playing the piano, but worse than the norm at, say, horseback riding. A draftsman would have better drafting skills, and so on. The notion of a man deemed average is different from that of a man who is average in everything he does…. Quetelet completely missed that point. (242)
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02 Oct 08
Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds.
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There is even a version, Yammer, for use inside companies. You follow the word bursts of particular employees. (“In the weekly staff meeting. Good bagels. Why is everyone wearing khakis? All staff must file their T.P.S. reports on time, O.K.?”) As if there weren’t already enough to distract us in the workplace between meetings, phone calls, instant messages, e-mail messages and those Google searches.
30 Jun 06
JAH Textbooks & Teaching 2004: Introduction
This is an excellent idea about uncovering the material.
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