二十五
Mikhail Simkin, Scientific inquiry into poetry
The average score of over twenty two thousand people is 55.5% correct. This is little better than random guessing, which would give 50% correct. The 35 people from leading Russian universities got an average score of 55.8%.
注：這哥們設計了一個小測試，從狄更斯及和他同時代的一個爛作家的小說里各摘了些代表性段落，讓網友逐條判斷這些段落是誰寫的，結果正確率的均值為48%，和瞎猜的結果差不多。
然后就有人批評：“小說是一個整體，單摘出些段落沒啥好說的。一小段只能看出作者的行文風格，而狄更斯的牛逼在于情節和角色設計，這從摘錄段落里可看不出來。”于是這哥們又生一計，那就比較詩歌唄，詩歌不用摘錄。于是選了些普希金和一個不知名的xx科夫的詩。2萬2千人參加了測試，平均正確率是55.5%，特別的，其中35個人來自俄羅斯頂尖大學，他們的平均正確率是55.8%。比瞎猜強那么一點點。
結論是，要不就是人們其實沒什么鑒賞力（即讀得很少很草率），要不就是很多大師其實只是“所謂的大師”。
二十六
Robin Hanson, Advice Isn’t About Info
I had lunch with a very senior managing partner at a venture capital firm as she was stepping down from the firm to spend more time with her family following a long and successful career in that company. She commented that once she announced her retirement, not only did her colleagues behave differently toward her, no longer inviting her to meetings and seeking her advice as often, but her time was less in demand by colleagues in the high-technology and venture capital communities more generally. Her wisdom and experience hadn’t changed— the only difference was her soon-to-be-diminished control over investment resources and positions in the venture capital firm.
這就是那些退休的主任、局長、行長、董事長們的痛苦：突然間，咯噔一下，沒人鳥他們了。
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亂彈：面對各種權威（知名評論家，公司里的上級），“警覺”一些、記住自己還有個腦袋很有必要啊。
