What Makes You So Smart, CEO?
Noah Davis talks to Yext CEO Howard Lerman about finding friends to work with, the importance of great teachers, and the balance between intelligence and execution.
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What Makes You So Smart?
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What Makes You So Smart, MIT Professor?
Noah Davis talks to Scott Aaronson—named by SuperScholar as one of the 30 smartest people alive—about the unpopularity of nerds, the value of skipping grades, and why Shakespeare isn't the worst.
What Makes You So Smart, Chuck Klosterman?
The writer talks to Pacific Standard about being a dilettante, his brief consideration of graduate school, and why having an intellectual inferiority complex might prevent you from becoming a jerk.
What Makes You So Smart, Computational Neuroscientist?
Terrence Sejnowski talks to Pacific Standard about searching for Sputnik, receiving pleasure reading material from a Nobel Prize winner, and being a science nerd.
What Makes You So Smart, Greatest Female Chess Player of All Time?
Noah Davis talks to Judit Polgár about her unusual upbringing, her relationship with her sisters, and why hard work checkmates intelligence.
What Makes You So Smart, Stephen Wolfram?
Noah Davis talks to the founder of Wolfram Alpha about computing the world's knowledge, how his kids got him to start traveling, and why he's not scared of AI.
What Makes You So Smart, Writer and ‘Nerd Musician’?
Noah Davis talks to Nicole Dieker about getting an education in rural Missouri, the specific type of smarts you need to be a freelancer, and reading the Time archive.
What Makes You So Smart, Creativity Cultivator?
Noah Davis talks to creative Oni Hartstein about reading, drawing, creating communities, and how a trip to Disney World changed her life.
What Makes You So Smart, Geek Dad?
Noah Davis talks to computer programmer and GeekDad.com editor Matt Blum about algebra, old computers, and teaching his kids how to be geeks.
What Makes You So Smart, Web Editor?
Noah Davis talks to Owen Thomas about late nights on his old high school literary magazine, early HTML, and his editorial philosophy.