"we used to have more faith in brains". The context here was Jason Calacanis was asking PG what signals if any, had changed over the course of time, when select

"we used to have more faith in brains". The context here was Jason Calacanis was asking PG what signals if any, had changed over the course of time, when selecting teams. Perhaps this goes nicely with this New Yorker article[1] summarizing the gap between high-IQ and what I would call instrumental rationality (as opposed to epistemic rationality). Also, it's quite possibly old hat to those who've read 'Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow' and related literature. Speaking personally, while I'm possibly different to many here on HN, I enjoyed a sort of ruthless pragmatism in my teens and 20's and almost dogmatic focus. These days, I'm falling more into the theory trap, and tend to enjoy the conceptual and theoretical, far more than accumulating operational domain expertise. I do wonder if that's a permanent inclination, or if it turns out to be more cyclic in nature. [1] "Why smart people are stupid", http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/daniel-kahneman-bias-studies.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06...