no one has given a straight answer about exactly what it is they’re building. (A quick side note: This piece focuses on the AI debate in the US and Europe, largely because many of the best-funded, most cutting-edge AI labs are there. But of course there’s important research...
On occasion, writing aflat characterwill serve you better. ConsiderSherlock Holmesin the book of the same name or Mr. Collins in Jane Austen’s classic novelPride and Prejudice. Sherlock gives familiarity to the series, and Mr. Collins is a comedic, though frustrating, recurrence when we leas...
Mediocrity isany point in time where you cannot attest to a thingor a person being either great, poor or average. A mediocre is someone whom you cannot at any time speak of, as being great, poor or average. He/She isn't great, isn't poor and isn't average. How do you break the...
“It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.” ...
The original gloomer character was a 27-year-old female who "work[s] too much at [a] mediocre job ... hates it ..." and "doesn't talk about anything anymore." 4chan being 4chan, a male version of the character soon appeared. The gloomer meme is not as popular as the doomer ...
I don’t know. It is certainly not something I can prove. Further more, the term “walk-in” is only a mediocre label given to an extraordinary experience that no one has yet understood nor has a better explanation for. The only thing I am certain of is that I fit Montgomery’s desc...
Unfortunately, this can often result in content that’s flat, generic, and “mediocre,” as Godin puts it. In trying to please everyone, we end up pleasing no one. Audience segmentation avoids mediocrity because it makes your marketing efforts morepersonalized(or “focused”). It lets you: ...
A mediocre person; - used disparagingly. Mediocrity Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding Mediocrity A person of second-rate ability or value; A team of aging second-raters Shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him Common Curiosities Can a society be both a med...
return. People have heavily criticized this usage since it promotes a toxic culture of masculinity where it's only worth being kind to women if they can get something out of it. Along that same train of thought, some claim that the term is an acronym for "Suckas Idolizing Mediocre P***...
doing secretarial work could be spent more profitably by doing executive work. Likewise, even if the assistant is mediocre at secretarial work, they would likely be even more ill-suited for executive work. Together, they are ultimately more productive if they focus on their comparative advantages....