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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Day: February 23, 2007

  • Intelligence gives way to wisdom

    Paul Graham has another essay posted: “Is It Worth Being Wise?” The path to wisdom is through discipline, and the path to intelligence through carefully selected self-indulgence. When I was competing as an athlete over a decade ago, I was pursuing “intelligence,” in Graham’s definiton of being able to do very few things exceptionally well.…

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