Interesting Links for 30-05-2013
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andrewducker- A genius, hiliarious, and illuminating piece about dress code at BT
- When doctors and patients share in decisions, hospital costs go up
- Monsters University will be the first Pixar movie to be entirely ray-traced
- Your Genes Don't Fit: Why 10,000 Hours of Practice Won't Make You an Expert
- Techniques of the Selling Author
- 7 Foods a Nutritionist Would Never Eat
- The Scottish Economy and Independence. (Nicely even-handed)
- European Union takes UK to court over migrants' entitlement to benefits
- We're closing a £900m hole in the tax system
- For pundits, it's better to be confident than correct
- Graph of the staggering drop in the cost of solar power
- This Is How the NRA Ends: A Real Gun-Control Movement Has Arrived
- Teachers stereotyping children is part of the gender problem
- Why is the Finnish school system so much better than other countries?
- On the whole Dr Who/Racism kerfuffle
I just love the word kerfuffle. It's awesome.
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Date: 2013-05-30 01:18 pm (UTC)just because he wasn't willing to put in the work doesn't mean that he couldn't have been good at it, it just means that he never tried. If you find examples of people who worked for 10 years or 10000 hours and didn't get better then that would be one thing, but claiming that never trying is the same things as not succeeding is bullshit.
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Date: 2013-05-30 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-30 08:06 pm (UTC)