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Pacific Standard: Searching the Internet Creates an Illusion of Knowledge.

“Surely you have noticed: A lot of people who have no idea what they are talking about are oddly certain of their superior knowledge.” Guilty as charged. All these years blogging, I have an incredibly broad and shallow base of knowledge across many subjects. On occasion, I walk too far out on the plank and it breaks, dropping me back spluttering into the Sea of Knowledge (née Reality). I call it a case of ‘insufferable-knowitall-itis.’ Say it ten times fast.

04/02/15 • 02:38 PM • Internet • Personal • Psychology • (2) Comments

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Along a similar vein, earlier today I had the thought that there is nothing more frustrating for me than knowing something is possible, but lacking the domain knowledge to pull it off.

Posted by crazybutable on 04/03/15 at 01:56 PM

Hire someone?
Crowd source it?
Open source it?

Actually the world is awash with people who can do, but don’t have an original thought.

Posted by Emmett on 04/04/15 at 01:25 AM

 

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