{"id":30,"date":"2005-01-20T20:14:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T17:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=30"},"modified":"2005-01-24T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T13:36:33","slug":"what-youll-wish-youd-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"What You&#8217;ll Wish You&#8217;d Known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/hs.html\" target=\"_blank\">What You&#8217;ll Wish You&#8217;d Known<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What an amazing high school graduation speech.  I wish I&#8217;d heard this at my graduation.  My high school graduation speech was given by Admiral John Pointexter&#8230; yeah, <em>that<\/em>  Admiral John Pointexter: from the Iran\/Contra deal.  The speech linked above is by millionaire\/author\/computer guy Paul Graham.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suspect if you had the sixteen year old Shakespeare or Einstein in school with you, they&#8217;d seem impressive, but not totally unlike your other friends.<\/p>\n<p>Which is an uncomfortable thought. If they were just like us, then they had to work very hard to do what they did. And that&#8217;s one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. If these guys were able to do what they did only because of some magic Shakespeareness or Einsteinness, then it&#8217;s not our fault if we can&#8217;t do something as good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What You&#8217;ll Wish You&#8217;d Known What an amazing high school graduation speech. I wish I&#8217;d heard this at my graduation. My high school graduation speech was given by Admiral John Pointexter&#8230; yeah, that Admiral John Pointexter: from the Iran\/Contra deal. The speech linked above is by millionaire\/author\/computer guy Paul Graham. My favorite quote: &#8220;I suspect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=30\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}