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Reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell's "pull the goalie" podcast. https://medium.com/the-post-grad-survival-guide/lessons-for-living-1-pull-the-goalie-cdc61b679319 ht
by jdxcode 6y ago
Reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell's "pull the goalie" podcast. https://medium.com/the-post-grad-survival-guide/lessons-for-living-1-pull-the-goalie-cdc61b679319 https://medium.com/the-post-grad-survival-guide/lessons-for-...
- ImaCake 6y agoI think it's a good lesson to learn, in general, that intuition and popular choices are often wrong or at least sub optimal. But I suspect that the popular sub-optimal path is taken for pragmatic reasons. More specifically to teaching, I have recently being putting together lesson plans for coding/robotics workshops and I suspect part of the reason for a less experimental experience is that it is easier to plan than a less on-rails teaching experience. This makes me think that at least part of popular wisdom is simply that the sub-optimal popular choice might be good enough given insufficient resources to implement the truly optimal choice.
- zrobotics 6y agoNot to make a reddit comment, your comment is insightful but can also be summed up with: "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". The path of least resistance is definitely a draw, and there is incredible business value lost pursuing it.