The curse of the gifted programmer (2000)
ESR showed his wisdom. That is a nice post. I like this quote:<p><pre><code>  &gt; When you were in college, did you ever meet bright
  &gt; kids who graduated top of their class in high-school 
  &gt; and then floundered freshman year in college because 
  &gt; they had never learned how to study? 
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Yeap. I also met a few who thought they were smart, then gained a secret terror that they were secretly stupid because they found CS hard.<p>Some things you have to work at before you learn them.