Superficial Intelligence

Thanks for posting this article Fernando, I enjoyed it. I remember the very first time I felt like that, it was my first week at the IBM internship, when first I realized how much I didn't know about computers I thought someone made a mistake in hiring me, now, almost 4 years later, I am still learning new things, almost daily, every time I feel like I am on top of things, something else comes up that tells me that I still have ways to go.

Great article, I enjoyed it too. I can certainly feel identified with that stupidity dilemma. I haven't gone through the experience of working on a PhD research project, but I did go through a big transition when I left school for work. I was a real bookworm and was very used to reading the course material and understanding it very well. But now at work, things are not nearly as nicely documented as they were in my textbooks, and the system I write code for is so vast, no one in my department really knows it completely, though there are some that know a good deal. But I feel so strange feeling so stupid sometimes because there is just so much I don't know, and I don't have a book or set of documents that nicely explain it all for me.

I enjoyed the article. In my design experience, I have had a lot of "feeling stupid" moments. For me, it turns into a challenge, a puzzle of sorts. There is a sense of satisfaction when I figure a piece of that puzzle out, even though it might raise more questions and there are still more variables than equations.