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WBH Monthly Digest 2024-04-05: Letters to Garcia

WBH Monthly Digest 2024-04-05: Letters to Garcia

Life currently prevents the weekly digest from being weekly, but I've got so much good stuff saved up for these that something has to give. I've noted before the Letter to Garcia is a Sorelian myth, in that it enables action even if the historical facts

Linkfest 2022-04-08: The Lonely Fight

I recently saw a re-post of Katsuya Terada’s Legend of Zelda illustrations, and it sent me searching for more. Here is a gallery of many of the images Terada created for Nintendo Power magazine. In later years, much would be made of the concept of “multimedia”, using the power

Locklin on the Big Five

Scott Locklin has a recent post up critical of the Big 5 theory of personality. I’ve said some nice things about the Big 5/OCEAN model ten years ago, but I cannot disagree with Locklin’s criticisms. Fundamentally, this kind of personality research seems to be going in the

Limitations of the Big 5

I talk a lot about the Big 5 personality factors, and how useful they are. So now it is time to discuss the problems with the Big 5. As in so many things, I am indebted to Steve Sailer for bringing these up first. Problem 1 is cheating. A person

People who bust ass almost always do well

I was emailed an article a while by back by a friend, all about the big 5 factors of personality and success in med school. That spurred quite a discussion about the relative values of smarts and hard work, and the kinds of personalities that do well in various professions,

First Impressions

A fun open access paper about personality judgments based on seeing just a picture of someone. One of the authors is Samuel Gosling, whose work lies behind the online Big 5 personality test I recommend to the curious. You can learn a lot just by looking at someone, and in