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The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice

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It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you. • Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe. • Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points. • Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better. • Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it. • Being able to listen well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them “Is there more?”, until there is no more. • A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier. • Gratitude will

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