Yeah. It's also possible, and indeed true, that Facebook is lying through its teeth, aggressively tracking now while claiming not to, introducing ever-more-pervasive and invasive tracking without notifying users or giving them an informed choice in the matter, thus forcibly paving the way for the future that will place them in the most powerful position.

Let's be real. Facebook has not "placed a long-term bet"; they are actively engineering that reality right now, despite loud and frequent objections from users.

Reminded me of http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-... - “So are you saying that we’re all just, like, really excellent sheep?”

Also, Marc Andreeson's take on a similar stereotype, The Organization Kid - http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-care...

In the younger generations it may seem there is nothing worse than entitlement, but after many years of observing, I think it is a worse affliction to be both super and an extreme conformist. I'm talking about the funneling of premium intellectual capital into existing institutions like investment, legal, management consulting, medicine, academia (in some cases) often through mechanisms like the Ivy's, but also through parental mechanisms (pressure, nepotism, etc) and various social institutions.

When ego-based considerations like reputation, status and compensation lure young minds, these minds have lost forever the ability to question everything - to abstract their understanding of the world beyond what social influences and short-term goals will allow. Stifling openness, creativity and non-conformity in formative years gives a person the ability to achieve a definition of success in our world. However, it closes the door to changing the world itself - and this is the real job of the super-capable.

Question everything. Take your own path. The world needs the super to constantly re-invent itself for the greater good, not for you to show the world that you are the best.

P(I'm impressed) ~= Nope

Turning down a lot of candidates is not the same as finding good candidates. If you are turning down that many applicants, all it means is that your applicant pool is almost entirely bad candidates. That merely implies you are failing where it matters most, getting awesome candidates interested and excited about working for you.

I bet you could drive the P down even more. You could write worse job descriptions that get even more of the wrong people to apply. You could post the job listing on job boards like Monster or Dice, where there is a huge pool of un-hirable candidates who will apply to 20-30 jobs per day. I bet you could make it so bad you will have to hire someone to be the initial filter of candidates. Congratulations! You now have an HR department. They will arbitrarily filter candidates before the people actually competent to filter candidates get to see them, based entirely on buzzword bingo and 'number of years of experience'.

You are failing and you're proud of it!

This is a dangerous article. A dangerous, slightly manic article.

Someone close to me is affected with bipolar, which drags me into that universe. People who self-medicate - such as the author - are very common with this disease. There are a million people who claim they've "overcome" it, some through alcohol or street drugs, some through nutrition and lifestyle changes. The danger is that when you're manic, you are your own blind spot - you're in no position to self-assess, you think things are great when they clearly aren't.

It's been three years since the end of his "challenge", and from the sound of it, three lovely years. Meeting a new love, getting married, positive things. How will the unmedicated author react when, say, a parent dies? Or the marriage ends?

There's nothing wrong with trying to understand the disease, its effects on your body, and the effects of alternative therapies - I commend the author for that. However, the claim that he's "overcome" bipolar this way is reckless and frankly dangerous. There are countless bipolar patients out there who struggle every day with their medications; the costs, the terrible side effects, and who fight a battle of willpower to stay on them despite feeling "cured". One article like this, one claim to the opposite, is all it takes to break them.

I'd love for this article to be true. I'd love it if my friend didn't have to spend thousands on medications that are slowly killing her, but somehow I doubt this is the answer.

Edit: What great feedback! It's interesting hearing people's different experiences with various forms of treatment. I think the lifestyle changes the author recommends are sane and sensible, helpful changes. They just aren't a "cure". You manage these diseases and you must be very careful when tweaking that management.

I highly recommend that anyone who's involved with - or interested in - a mood disorder read An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison. It gives you an excellent understanding of the subtleties and trickery this cunning disease exhibits.