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11. Babble Hypothesis:
According to multiple studies, what best predicts whether someone becomes a leader? Their experience? Their IQ?
No!
The amount of time they spend talking. It doesn't even matter what they say, just how much they say it.
We suck at picking leaders.
My Friends, a New MEGATH...
@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
“Wikipedia took one hundred million hours of volunteer time to create,” says Shirky. “How do we measure this relative to other uses of time? Well, TV watching, which is the largest use of time, takes two hundred billion hours every year—in the US alone. To put this in perspective, we spend a Wikipedia worth of time every weekend in the US watching advertisements alone. If we were to forgo our television addiction for just one year, the world would have over a trillion hours of cognitive surplus to commit to share projects.” Imagine what we could do for the world’s grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
Abundance
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Hanlon’s Razor
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
In assessing someone's actions, we should not assume negative intent if there is a viable alternative explanation—different beliefs, lack of intelligence, incompetence, or ignorance.
“Razors” Are Rules of Th...
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