Genius vs. Expertise

The more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the bottleneck to great work is not knowledge, it's not information, it's not even intelligence. It's that intangible quality, call it taste, creativity, judgment, courage, intuition, agency. We've all heard the quote from Thomas Edison where he says, "Genius is 1% inspir... See more

Now consider our current situation. Despite all the language professing otherwise, in general the education system of the United States is based entirely on genetic determinism. A child is born assumed to have innate traits, including, for example, a preference as to what they want to be when they grow up (somehow just waiting fully-formed inside o... See more