So what you’re saying is my mental illness of getting absolutely obsessed with a subject for a year or more and then moving into the next one (3 years ago it was Stalin for a year or so, then the last 18 months early Christianity) is the way to go 😂😂
Yesterday, Chris and I had been talking about this blog post that was making the rounds in his (tech-heavy) Mastodon feed: https://danluu.com/look-stupid/
It occurs to me in conjunction with your post today that there are two* ways to look stupid: one is to have never read the whatever "canon" and so not understand the references of the people you're in the room with, and the other is to have read much more deeply about the topic under discussion and so see that many people are not questioning "obvious-seeming but wrong" things they learned, sometimes from that canon, leaving them all wondering how you aren't accepting the *obvious* answer.
*at least two; I leave open the possibility of more
This was interesting. In general I’d say I try not to look stupid but the main way I do that is by admitting when I don’t know things rather than trying to pretend otherwise
This was excellent and it was excellent because the framing was a bit different than what I would have done. But, that made me think. Thanks.
Thanks Joe! Glad to hear it.
So what you’re saying is my mental illness of getting absolutely obsessed with a subject for a year or more and then moving into the next one (3 years ago it was Stalin for a year or so, then the last 18 months early Christianity) is the way to go 😂😂
What they call madness I call wisdom
This is a banger.
Thank you!
Yesterday, Chris and I had been talking about this blog post that was making the rounds in his (tech-heavy) Mastodon feed: https://danluu.com/look-stupid/
It occurs to me in conjunction with your post today that there are two* ways to look stupid: one is to have never read the whatever "canon" and so not understand the references of the people you're in the room with, and the other is to have read much more deeply about the topic under discussion and so see that many people are not questioning "obvious-seeming but wrong" things they learned, sometimes from that canon, leaving them all wondering how you aren't accepting the *obvious* answer.
*at least two; I leave open the possibility of more
This was interesting. In general I’d say I try not to look stupid but the main way I do that is by admitting when I don’t know things rather than trying to pretend otherwise