Monthly Archives: January 2013

Important statistical research from Kevin Dutton’s book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success.

Most of the professions on the right require human connection, dealing with feelings and most of them don’t offer much power. Psychopaths, by their very nature, would not be drawn to or very good at these things.
On the other hand, most of the roles on the left do offer power and many require an ability to make objective, clinical decisions divorced from feelings. Psychopaths would be drawn to these roles and thrive there.

Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest? (Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree)

boingboing

SR writes:

Just wanted to pass on my thoughts to the family and friends of [Adventurer, climber, fund-raiser] Ian McKeever [above, who died on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, yesterday].

Ian was a pretty incredible, inspirational but very human guy who was ambitious (in the best sense) and crazy (in the very best sense).

I will never forget climbing with him because of his enthusiasm and courage. But the thing I will remember most was his kindness. Goodbye Ian.

 

Irish Adventurer Ian McKeever Dies On Mount Kilimanjaro (RTE)

Ian McKeever (Kilimanjaro Achievers)

(RTE)

From December 29, 2012:

Kilimanjaro Achievers 2012 (Facebook)

…Ireland continued to struggle, too. The proportion of households without a working adult was the among highest in the European Union, and yet the government, under pressure from its creditors, undertook a series of cuts that reduced aid to the poorest, including child support payments. At the same time it increased property taxes.


Europe’s Debt Crisis: No Relief on the Horizon (Suzanne Daly, New York Times)

Pictures by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times