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1- What a College Education Buys: But the education kids are rewarded for may not be the same education their parents think they are paying for. Economists would say that a college degree is partly a “signaling” device — it shows not that its holder has learned something but rather that he is the kind of person who could learn something. Colleges sort as much as they teach. Even when they don’t increase a worker’s productivity, they help employers find the most productive workers In recent decades, the biggest rewards have gone to those whose intelligence is deployable in new directions on short notice, not to those who are locked into a single marketable skill, however thoroughly learned and accredited. 2- College Education and The Placebo Effect: The placebo effect is scientifically established, well-known effect in medicine. Basically, when doctors prescribe a sugar pill (a placebo), a good percentage of patients do get better. Note that while a placebo is just a sugar pill, the ef...

From RGV's blog, a thought for the day--- Q: Can you give me an example to differentiate between knowledge, intelligence, genius and wisdom? Ans: Knowledge is to know that a snake contains poison; intelligence is to figure out what the poison contains and how it can kill you. Genius is to create an anti venom. Wisdom is to know all this but yet not to fuck around with the snake just in case the first three go wrong. Capital gains : A vivid, wide-ranging (and very scary) portrait of unbridled consumerism in the post-liberalisation years. [ Thanks to Jai Arjun Singh ] Infamous List : To clarify, the people in these lists are/were good, honorable people. What is unpleasant/infamous about the lists are the circumstances in which these people found themselves. Rabindranath Tagore in Conversation with H. G. Wells Gapminder : Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Free Hindi Ebooks Download. Mentor Yourself : Five core strategies for developing a more satisfyin...

Agrippa's Trilemma :The trilemma is a breakdown of all possible proofs for a theory into three general types: * The circular argument, in which theory and proof support each other. * The regressive argument, in which each proof requires a further proof. * The axiomatic argument, which rests on accepted precepts. This Trilemma is just for giving you an idea about types of arguments and little bit of creating impression about me (:P). We came across several heated debates on the online community, forums and blogs about any topic. In a typical argument, each person tries to prove themselves right and the other person wrong. Instead of synthesis or refining of ideas, our focus shifts to stick to our owns idea as prime and supreme one. In the end, each person only ends up either more entrenched in their views or influenced by dominant juggling of words, regardless of who seems to deliver the most rational argument. Arguments are done for the sake of progress than victory. An argument ca...

"I am an enthusiast, not an expert." It took me 23 years 11 months to realise and write this line. Now, this line holds key to my future. I was never involved with full extent in anything in past. I was working as a CATALYST for the process but didn't actively participating in it. Further, this nature prevents me to start anything new as entrepreneur or provide service under hierarchical structure order. What I am able of was to inspire/aspire others for achieving higher goals. So, I have decided to plan my career on this inherent talent. Now on, I will give a talk about my career in casual manner in this post. A Quote for Self Motivation at Start:  "Don’t meet people who just want to meet you. Do something that makes everyone want to meet you. Make a short that is good enough that no one can ignore.” --Anurag Kashyap Once upon a time, I met a mechanical engineer working in Delhi metro project. What we majorly talk is irrational here but his one sentence alway...

Image is of Madman painted by Theodore Gericault . Now the preview of this writeup should be cleared to you. " Logic is deduction, not description. Understanding is secondary; the reasoning is the thing. In Logic and Mathematics, we do not understand things . . . we reason and deduce. " --- Quoted from the movie : The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser . This slightly amended dialogue from the movie set the mood of this post. I haven't seen the movie but read this punch line on pfc . Suddenly, I wanted to compile some hotch potch about wisdom, knowledge and information. Starting with poetry..... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T.S. Eliot And then progressing with a quote... Knowledge comes by taking things apart:analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.--John A. Morrison On reading about genius people on nimmy's blog , my heart propelled me to put my crazy i...