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Keith Sawyer
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Keith Sawyer writes The Creativity Guru, a personal blog at keithsawyer.wordpress.com about science and culture. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Are you too old to be brilliant?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Sawyer's posts on age and productivity, including one whose URL asks 'are you too old', cited in a thread on starting programming late and on Pauling's productivity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Are you too old to be brilliant?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-23
What Hacker News says?
> if you live in a cave you will be making cave paintings while others paint the chapel. And if you live where nobody else does, you will build what nobody has imagined. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/181349/Albert-Eins... >he was increasingly isolated from the rest of the physics community. Because of the huge strides made by quantum theory in unraveling the secrets of atoms and molecules, the majority o…
Comment linking /2012/01/16/does-solitude-enhance-creativity-a-critique-of-susan-cains-attack-on-collaboration/
on “Little Big Details”Submitted Polymaths No More? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThanks, we had updated the link from https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/are-you-too-old... a little while ago.
Comment linking /2016/11/22/are-you-too-old-to-be-brilliant/
on “Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact”Submitted Avoid “Culture Fit” If You Want Innovation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionrefer to the following https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/are-you-too-old... which I just found on the front page. This would also explain Pauling's success, because he was really productive.
Comment linking /2016/11/22/are-you-too-old-to-be-brilliant/
on “When is it too late to get into programming?”Submitted Are you too old to be brilliant? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion