The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher
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Winners of the competition include Teller, Leo Szilard, von Karman, … So this emergence was hardly a coincidence.
Hungary at the turn of the 20th century was well poised to create the intellectual legacy it had in math and physics in the coming 100 years:
http://www.batmath.it/matematica/raccolte_es/ek_competitions...
"His students included Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, David Bryson of Counting Crows, Kevin Cadogan from Third Eye Blind, Larry LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Alex Skolnick of Testament, Rick Hunolt (ex-Exodus), Phil Kettner of Lȧȧz Rockit, Geoff Tyson of T-Ride, Charlie Hunter and David Turin."
One of these men are not like the others.
Some of the best managers and mentors I've met have a combination of both an eye for talent but also an ability to truly believe in someone, and sometimes just having someone believe in you can really turn someone's confidence, career, and even life around.
Everyone 'shows up' at some point in their life. Some march to the beat of their own drum and continue to drive from inside, while others are lost because the hesitation in 'am I even doing this right?' was left unanswered.
Truthfully, this is the most infuriating thing about social media -- there are true moments of brilliance that they see on a daily basis (when someone choses to sign off, how they replay a certain section of a podcast, following links and references made in other mediums, etc) that we could be highlighting and praising... yet none of them do.
> Leonardo da Vinci became an apprentice [of Verrocchio] by the age of 17 and remained in training for seven years. Other famous painters apprenticed in the workshop or associated with it include Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#Verrocchio's...
Like many, I've shone the spotlight on or helped many eventually successful people and it's part of "being involved" and using your influence for good whether you're a teacher, coworker, publisher, influencer, or even just voting up posts on HN :-)
We all stand "on the shoulders of giants" but I suspect most successful people are stood on hundreds of giants rather than single pivotal figures.
Many cults start out with self-help gurus or educators who create closed groups with high demands. Cult leaders often promise special abilities to their students, if they just stick with them. The results are pretty much the opposite of what the parent is describing - the members are lost history and often don't achieve much and the narcissism of the cult leader defines the group. Unlike what the OP is describing - the proper teacher is more or less obscure and the network of students all go onto achieve highly.
I guess this is just a long, roundabout way to say that humility and skill amplify much farther than even genuine skill and charisma. Maybe there's something to also be said about the altruism of a good teacher versus the high-demands of a cultic following.
For one, they were all Ashkenazi too. [0]
[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
Especially when you want to comment on one bit but it gets lost in the noise. Which ironically is the whole point of Twitter.
More generally it mostly missed the ability to edit, to tweak context, and to structure content properly.
Oh well, no better than not getting the story at I guess.
IRL stream of concious is overrated.
“You guys hear about this coronavirus? That’s a bad deal I tell ya. They say I gotta work from home. I said ‘What do you mean I gotta work from home?’. They said ‘It means you gotta go work from home’. So I went home to the wife and she said ‘how was work?’ And I said ‘fine’ and I’ve been in this bar ever since. Tip your waitress!”
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And that’s why instead I make the computers do the things for a living.
Geez Louise, even on the Internet I get no respect let me tell ya.
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The headline Tweet is good enough for an article in some NT or Vice or w/w.
But like I said better to have the
One of the main characters is an art historian and archivist at a municipality with this ability. Ignored by his superiors, they keep him happy by letting him pick out one painting from the depot in the basement every year for his birthday. Due to his ability he knows which paintings are truly good among all the kitsch.
Then one painter suddenly gets world-famous after his death, and eight of his "worthless" paintings he had are suddenly worth millions. Then his boss demands that he hands over the paintings again, accusing him of stealing from the municipality.
This is the start of the film. I highly recommend it, even it's not really about this but it's a really good character study.
> “You have to find your own rainbow to follow. There is no gold at the end of somebody else’s rainbow.”
Great advice, still struggling with this.
Also why top performers are offered enough in promotions/refreshers by their first jobs to never have a financial reason to search elsewhere.
These clubs were building their businesses off the backs of these comedians."
But without them he would not have known they existed.
Step one in informal economies.
So this guy is like a pre-cog for detecting smug assholes? How can we harness this power for good?
Bill Maher - I don't follow him as closely, but everything I hear is basically regurgitated reactionary schtick. He says "the things they don't want you to say" which really means punching down at fat people, queers, people of color, etc. He's a relic of the early 2000s when you could attract a sizeable audience just by being a substance-less edgelord. As far as I know he's basically done a 180 politically because liberals used to enjoy that stuff but now it's more popular with right wingers.
The person in the article also discovered Ray Romano, so... he's 3/3 in my book.
I’m also astonished at how liberals, with full financial support of the world’s wealthiest people (you could count notable exceptions on your hands), censorship authority over every digital and print media, control over education curricula, union bosses, the FBI, and more have the ability to believe that they’re victims of some right wing conspiracy. It’s not just wrong; it’s the opposite of the truth. The US is still distinguishable from North Korea, so clearly there must be skullduggery afoot! BIG OIL must have done this! It can’t possibly be that most regular people think my pseudo-religion is dumb.