Or: "A data scientist is someone who knows less about statistics than your average statistician, and less about software development than your average software developer".
Just read that last week. Postman's critique of TV and media largly holds up. He would be glad about the iminent demise of TV, but apalled by what its successor technologies are doing to a still largely uncritical populace.
"As always, there are caveats. I have a degree in philosophy, but haven't read any of the classic literature on this subject, so I'm almost certainly reinventing the wheel. And although I lean heavily on what I've gleaned from Sarah, David, and Venkat, I'm not sure any of them would endorse what I've written here. You might want to think of it as my own funky synthesis — and if it comes up short, that's entirely my fault."
Greatest and most self-aware disclaimer I've read in a long time.
What of it? I think lots of stuff is terrible and pay attention to it to better understand it. Both to insure against the possibility that I'm wrong and, if I'm not, to better understand why it exists and how it came to be.
So you've never tried something multiple times before deciding it wasn't for you?
He does a lot of interviews so after I determined I wasn't the biggest fan I decided to download just the episodes with interviews of people I was interested it. Then I unsubscribed.
If i consume 12+ episodes of something it means there is some value there. Otherwise I would have stopped earlier. I don't really understand all this negativity towards Ferriss. He's an honest guy who provides a lot of value to people. No one is forced to listen to him.
> If i consume 12+ episodes of something it means there is some value there
Not really. As I said I tried a few then just downloaded the interviews of people I as interested in thinking he might be as good as Mixergy. Ultimately I found out nothing new was really asked in any of the interviews I listened to.
So I thought there would be redeeming value in the interviews of guests I was interested in but at least for me there was not.
> I don't really understand all this negativity towards Ferriss. He's an honest guy who provides a lot of value to people. No one is forced to listen to him.
I'm not really negative towards him I just find his content spammy / of little value. It's terribly generic and I find the examples of comparing him to horoscopes pretty apt.
