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Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and the Rule of Awkward Silence

18 points by RickJWagner 6y ago

BruceEel 6y ago
This is so interesting and so difficult. Van Vogt wrote about the cortical-thalamic pause in Null-A (1948), you could almost read this as vindication of Korzybzki and Van Vogt.
jdxcode 6y ago
There is something about this article’s style of writing that I just hate. I can’t quite figure it out but it reads to me like a bunch of filler around buzzfeed spam or something. Contrast that with the actual content which I found unique and super insightful. I think it’s too easy to put these 2 individuals on a pedestal but this is genuinely good advice from smart people I should pay attention to.
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perl4ever 6y ago
Strange not to use this example that was discussed quite a bit recently: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-george-floyd-1.5594918 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-george-floyd-... Also, seems like a misuse of the phrase "emotional intelligence". I mean, this article is talking precisely about suppressing an emotional response and using your intellect instead and how important it is. Or maybe emotional intelligence is just a misnomer in general and this is what it always means, not being emotional in order to gain an advantage through intelligence? I don't know, but there's cognitive dissonance for me in that "emotional intelligence" always vaguely implied to me a different, privileged type of "intelligence" that's better that regular "intelligence" and this article is implying that emotions just make intelligence worse. If I think about what I really believe, I think when people in other contexts talk about lack of emotional intelligence, I guess that how I might rephrase the problem is that people who are identifying as unemotional are frequently really not; they are motivated by their own emotions to the point where they confuse them for objectivity. Which leads back to the idea that pausing could help you detach from that.
seige 6y ago
Keanu Reaves is another example.
- sunstone 6y ago
  I wonder if Obama has any of these on video?

18 points by RickJWagner 6y ago

This is so interesting and so difficult. Van Vogt wrote about the cortical-thalamic pause in Null-A (1948), you could almost read this as vindication of Korzybzki and Van Vogt.

jdxcode 6y ago

There is something about this article’s style of writing that I just hate. I can’t quite figure it out but it reads to me like a bunch of filler around buzzfeed spam or something. Contrast that with the actual content which I found unique and super insightful. I think it’s too easy to put these 2 individuals on a pedestal but this is genuinely good advice from smart people I should pay attention to.

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perl4ever 6y ago

Strange not to use this example that was discussed quite a bit recently: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-george-floyd-1.5594918 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-george-floyd-... Also, seems like a misuse of the phrase "emotional intelligence". I mean, this article is talking precisely about suppressing an emotional response and using your intellect instead and how important it is. Or maybe emotional intelligence is just a misnomer in general and this is what it always means, not being emotional in order to gain an advantage through intelligence? I don't know, but there's cognitive dissonance for me in that "emotional intelligence" always vaguely implied to me a different, privileged type of "intelligence" that's better that regular "intelligence" and this article is implying that emotions just make intelligence worse. If I think about what I really believe, I think when people in other contexts talk about lack of emotional intelligence, I guess that how I might rephrase the problem is that people who are identifying as unemotional are frequently really not; they are motivated by their own emotions to the point where they confuse them for objectivity. Which leads back to the idea that pausing could help you detach from that.

seige 6y ago

Keanu Reaves is another example.

sunstone 6y ago
I wonder if Obama has any of these on video?