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comatose_kid
"Freshman physics at MIT gave me my comeuppance. Every week I stared at a whole sheet of problems that I was sure I could never solve even if I lived to be 100. I'd never learned how to work on a problem for more than 10 seconds so I was stuck with a knotted stomach and a panicked brain. Fourteen years of struggle with these kinds of problems in and around MIT taught me, by imperceptible steps, that I wasn't actually better than the average person. If a slight increase in the difficulty of the problems rendered me just as helpless as those poor souls in junior high, then who was I to hold myself above anyone? Without consciously trying to do anything differently, I found myself able to have real conversations with people from all walks of life."

From http://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/samantha-XIV

pragmatic
What's with the naked pictures?

NSFW!!!!!

jkcunningham
That's how he generates lots of web traffic. Most of his writing is pretty mundane otherwise.
mhb
Well, yeah if you click twice to see the 1000x1500 versions.
mahmud
There is nothing wrong with the human body; don't fear it.