baldur
baldur

“Playacting genius: the performative logic of reasoning from first principles – Baldur Bjarnason”

I wrote this out of frustration with the self-important types cosplaying smart who run rampant in software dev.

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fgtech
fgtech

@baldur Good stuff. This line in particular hits home:

praised during childhood for being the smartest person in the room

The very concept of “smartest person” is fundamentally flawed. Smart about what? Knowledge of one domain does not automatically apply elsewhere.

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