From the category archives:

Stupidity

Why Do We Fail?

July 6, 2010

It’s hard to know exactly why people fail, but these are some of the most quoted reasons of failure:
Education
Our view of education is outdated to justify failure. I would agree that a poor education on the home and a mediocre culture might be real reasons behind failure, but not education academically speaking (frequently the most [...]

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How To Build a Community Of Drones

February 15, 2010

These are the quick and easy steps to build a community of drones:

Make friends.
Promote them so they will promote you.
Screw them over/ ignore them/ use them/drop them while becoming friends with their friends.
Repeat as needed.

In no time, you’ll be praised for your community building skills thanks to those drone followers that are too blind to [...]

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The End Of Education

December 23, 2009

One of the most harmful consequences of our outdated educational system is the idea of an “end.”
No matter how inflated education is nowadays (I’m dying to see what the education industry will come up with once MBA’s fall into the commodity category), it always establishes graduations. When you graduate it means “you are done.”
Note: [...]

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The Media Attention Whores

November 19, 2009

There are two ways to do things:
You can talk about the things you’re going to do, and then do them.
Or you can just do them.
Sadly, people seem to value more the former way of action.
The one that makes a big fuss about it.
The one that needs selfish justification.
The one that’s fake.
The problem is we encourage [...]

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Philosophy’s Bad Press

October 30, 2009

People underestimate philosophy.
What’s more important to understand, to really comprehend, than things like death, friendship, ambition, intelligence, society, love, frustrations, popularity, feelings, money, family, fear, mediocrity, humanity, will and religion, to name a few?
The problem with these topics is that they all think they get it. Everyone has opinions on the previously mentioned topics. We [...]

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Commoditization Of Education: Second Theory

October 27, 2009

John comments:
Education has been devalued in that last couple of decades but I think the blame should be placed on students. Rampant grade inflation to meet the needs of consumers (students) who don’t want to study so hard anymore, mean that the rigor and exclusivity of higher education are disappearing. Anyone can go to university [...]

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The Risk Of Wisdom

October 19, 2009

There’s no way to explain how something feels.
You can’t feel cold, or pain, or goosebumps vicariously. Someone can tell you what it’s like, but it’s meaningless until you go through it.
Same goes for wisdom.
Reading more won’t make you wiser. Its purpose is to spark action.
You need to write for yourself, ask for yourself, do for [...]

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