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Thursday, January 12, 2023

 

I was reading this interesting opinion piece in the NY Times this week and was both impressed and a little envious as to the clear intellect and talent level of the author, Ezra Klein. And I wondered what it would be like to be that smart, not to mention talented.

And that got me to thinking as to whether I'd rather be really smart or a really great athlete. I decided I'd rather be a really great athlete because I think being that smart makes one all the more troubled by what's going on in the world.

But that's probably not very smart.

And then I thought, if I could one one of the ten best in the world at something, what would it be? 

How about you?

Maybe we should just go with

People.

Same as we've been trying to do.

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