His essay says that we overrate intelligence and underrate independent-mindedness and writing. This is actionable - we can cultivate both with some minor chang

His essay says that we overrate intelligence and underrate independent-mindedness and writing. This is actionable - we can cultivate both with some minor changes, and meanwhile we aren’t likely to get much marginal return on trying to improve general intelligence. If you’d like to provide an alternative theory, please do. But 100 words of eye-roll aren’t moving society forward either. FWIW I was homeschooled and now work from home with a large team of folks in an office. I see a lot of people struggle with independent-mindedness, and I think it hurts our team’s productivity.