>Of course things aren't as simple as he presents them in outliers, but man did I fall for it at first. Yea, I had just graduated from college and was binging

>Of course things aren't as simple as he presents them in outliers, but man did I fall for it at first. Yea, I had just graduated from college and was binging on popsci. I felt really smart because all the popsci authors seemed to reference each other and when I saw the references I thought I was very well read. Obviously, I don't think that anymore. This is an embarrassingly accurate description of me at that time: http://xkcd.com/863/ http://xkcd.com/863/