I would bet Matt's IQ is easily far north of 140. He's one of the most perceptive people I've ever met. Think of some of the stereotypes of engineers. Many can

I would bet Matt's IQ is easily far north of 140. He's one of the most perceptive people I've ever met. Think of some of the stereotypes of engineers. Many can code but struggle to communicate. Matt can code, has his name on many patents, leads a team, makes hundreds or thousands of videos, regularly keynotes at conferences & interacts with thousands of people, was GoogleGuy for years, participates in the comments here, was an expert in some of the past lawsuits against Google ... he has basically had a near infinite number of opportunities to put his foot in his mouth & yet how many times has he ever done it? Almost never, if ever. About the only times I think he has potentially missed at all was the "breaking their spirits" bit on TWIG, and then two minor bits in a few YouTube videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZuX9OaMLo&feature=youtu.be&t=2m http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZuX9OaMLo&feature=youtu.be&... "We got less spam and so it looks like people don't like the new algorithms as much." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jap11IIxfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jap11IIxfw "the gap between what you can get away with and what google says you can get away with is getting smaller all the time" --- Who do you know who has as much media exposure as he has had who hasn't repeatedly put their foot in their mouth? For me, that answer is nobody. --- What makes Matt's performance even more impressive is how scummy some of Google's policies have been, even as he came off smelling like roses. There are endless debates on how reasonable it is for Google to infer intent on links & so on, yet at the same time some of the past Google executive emails have quotes in them like: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/google-faces-new-pressure-from-states-to-crack-down-on-illegal-online-drug-sales/2014/04/15/6dfc61fa-be6d-11e3-b195-dd0c1174052c_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/google-faces-new-pres... "As with all of our policies, we do not verify what these sites actually do, only what they claim to do." (for AdWords advertisers) http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3906310/the-no-hire-paper-trail-steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-didnt-want-you-to-see http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3906310/the-no-hire-paper-... "I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this. thanks Eric"