I’ve gutted out 3 careers in “skilled labor” (a term I find problematic), each time working from the bottom entry level guy, to the guy in charge. In all three I’ve worked side by side with people who actually got degrees in that field.

I have also regretted not getting a degree for my entire adult life.

We’ve been “walking past” this since at least 1961. Americans excell at ignoring our check engine lights.

Wisdom is intelligence applied. Or perhaps, wisdom is the synthesis of intelligence.

Will Hunting starts out the movie with mad intelligence and little to no wisdom, and the movie is the story of him shifting from one to the other.

Brown sugar by the Rolling Stones. My Sherona.

For those like me who are uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loona

And the person from the thumbnail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuu

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