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A Respected MIT Professor Said Your Success Will Be Determined by Three Things
- dieselgate 4y agoNot sure if I’m cynical or what but just couldn’t muster the desire to finish the article. I agree the ability to write and communicate is important but also feel it’s oversold and trite. I work with people who speak my native language as a second language - which is just to say life if generally more complicated than giving the advice of “focus on good communication”.
- jleyank 4y agoThis feels like “in business” was omitted somewhere. If you look at things like physics, the quality of one’s ideas is paramount - nobody listens to a well-spoken, well-written crank. I know some of the bell labs people were outgoing and personable (Kernighan?) but were Ritchie or Thompson that way? And they did ok…
- karmakaze 4y agoFor #1, How to Speak[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY