How to Think Like a Genius 35-Application
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/03/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why doesn’t it apply?
Rick Rosner: Because that is more of a diss to geniuses, but maybe it reflects a semi-reality. The stereotypic genius, ivory tower, absent-minded, although that has been changed in the last 30 years by tech geniuses becoming multi-billionaires. You have a show like Silicon Valley in which everybody is a semi-Aspergery super smart coder who finds him or her self swimming in an environment that is lousy with tens of billions of dollars in capital. So, that money thing has changed and society has changed and society is in fact becoming less resistant to disruptive genius.
Now, while we have this disruption, and it was brought to us by the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of the world, and continues to be. So, it is old school that geniuses are kind of finding themselves shunted off into areas that don’t threaten the various status quos. And we’re on some kind of ramp where we’re facing more and more disruption and genius is playing a part in that.
And to widen out the argument, there’s an information, not a war, but information is playing a bigger role in our lives. They don’t call us the information age for nothing, and information disrupts. And geniuses aren’t entirely in control of their role in society. It is an interaction between society and geniuses and societies have become infected with information and has become less resistant to disruption.
And geniuses end up riding that wave along with everybody else, but more to their benefit.
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