Author: If This Then That

The Road Not Taken – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler

Why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are – Boing Boing:

I was always more ignorant than I am now, even though I didn’t feel all that ignorant then. That means that it’s probably also true that right now I’m sitting here in a state of total ignorance concerning things that my future self wishes he could shout back at me through time. Yet here I sit, unaware. Nescient. The evidence gathered so far by psychologists and neuroscientists seems to suggest that each one of us has a relationship with our own ignorance, a dishonest, complicated relationship, and that dishonesty keeps us sane, happy, and willing to get out of bed in the morning.

Knowledge vs. Intelligence · An A List Apart Blog Post:

The difference between knowledge and intelligence is key here. Knowledge is the collection of skills and information a person has acquired through experience. Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge. Just because someone lacks knowledge of a particular subject doesn’t mean they can’t apply their intelligence to help solve problems. Knowledge is wonderful, but it fades as techniques and technologies come and go. Intelligence sustains. Its borders extend beyond any technique or technology, and that makes all the difference.

Sacred Grounds – The New Yorker:

An obsession with brewing protocol is generally the mark of an amateur—that pitiable person who makes a simple thing complicated in the futile hope of feeling kinship with the professionals.

Your Money – Assessing the Damage Caused by Your Card Rewards – NYTimes.com:

“The marginal effect of my individual use… simply won’t impact the larger outcome,” [Dave Hanson, a Spokane, Wash., resident, [who] studied philosophy in graduate school at the University of Chicago and taught applied ethics at Gonzaga University], said. “The assumption that we ought to act in a way that we wish all of us would act ignores the fact that there is no mechanism by which we can ensure that we will all act that way. And we won’t.”