http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/01/crazy-like-a-fox a blog about the connected age Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:45:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/01/crazy-like-a-fox#comment-26 Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » Serial Enthusiasms and Enduring Passions Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:17:08 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/01/crazy-like-a-fox#comment-26 [...] Serial enthusiasts, also known as foxes, aren’t fully appreciated in our culture. We like hedgehogs, a.k.a. experts, better; in fact, we want to be them. No one has ever written a blog post titled “How to Be a Dilettante” (I checked). And yet, what would the world do without us? Some of the most interesting thinkers today–Malcom Gladwell, Steven Levitt, and Virginia Postrel, for example–are more fox than hedgehog. They draw on broad knowledge of many subjects to get at underlying patterns of meaning. [...] […] Serial enthusiasts, also known as foxes, aren’t fully appreciated in our culture. We like hedgehogs, a.k.a. experts, better; in fact, we want to be them. No one has ever written a blog post titled “How to Be a Dilettante” (I checked). And yet, what would the world do without us? Some of the most interesting thinkers today–Malcom Gladwell, Steven Levitt, and Virginia Postrel, for example–are more fox than hedgehog. They draw on broad knowledge of many subjects to get at underlying patterns of meaning. […]

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