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People who bust ass almost always do well

I was emailed an article a while by back by a friend, all about the big 5 factors of personality and success in med school. That spurred quite a discussion about the relative values of smarts and hard work, and the kinds of personalities that do well in various professions,

Memories of Dale Shewalter

I attended Dale Shewalter's funeral this last Sunday. It was a very good service [my father served as Master of Ceremony], with lots of good stories about Dale and his life. Dale Shewalter died young, but he nevertheless had a full life. I learned lots of things that

Real Education hyperlinked references

Seems like I am always referencing Charles Murray and Real Education. I remember reading a review of Real Education that complained that Murray could easily have provided a website that had all his hyperlinked references in it, but did not. So, I started a page with just those references on

Laws of Human Nature: The Map is not the Territory

The first article I read about the laws of human nature today was about a numerical simulation of the Peter Principle, which states that employees keep getting promoted until the point where they can no longer perform their jobs well. This simulation is pretty clever, but I don't

Learning Styles Debunked

Having recently suffered through a corporate software training class facilitated by someone with an extensive miseducation in how people learn, I appreciated this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education critical of the received wisdom on learning styles. The gist of the journal article referenced in the Chronicle is that

Regular expressions are like Tabasco®

John D Cook posts a link about the overuse of regular expressions. I like the article, but.... I am pretty interested in regular expressions, because I have often had a need for this kind of thing but I laughed at the analogy because I am from Arizona. Overuse of Tabasco

The Value of Libraries

There was a short blurb in the online New York Times about a library in California that closed due to falling tax revenues despite the efforts of Ray Bradbury to save it. Explaining his support of libraries generally and his efforts in Ventura specifically, Mr. Bradbury said in an interview