Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein

http://norvig.com/performance-review.html

by jaydub • 17 years ago

36 8 17 years ago

mingyeow• 17 years ago

Hilarious!

"You seem to lack a flare for self-promotion. Lucky for us our PR department stepped in and changed your L/c2 equation into the much more marketable E = mc2"

Smart. ;)

Ardit202• 17 years ago

I didn't actually get the point of this whole piece. It sounds like some fiction of course, but fiction which distorts reality and that is called illusion I believe.

Well in all truth it sounds like propaganda, propaganda by definition I use it, namely using language to change perception and that is what this article does. It seems to suggest that Einstain was a human, not perfect, not entirely knowledgeable or fully functioning person. Fine in his logic of course, but lacking all common sense.

Einstaine lived amongst us however, not even half a decade ago. We have stories of him, we have myths about him. We do not know if he was gullabile, I mean, he objected against the german-anglo war, which shows that he had some practical understanding of being a human and performing his tasks with common sense.

So my question, what is the purpose of this article? To suggest that he was not perfect, to suggest that his mind only understood logics but nothing else, to make us feel good that we have not achieved his heights for aftrall why would you want to if you would not be able to perform on a basic common sense level?

zkz• 17 years ago

Looks like a critic to the job system (by mocking the annual performance reviews) to me.

jacquesm• 17 years ago

not half a decade ago? I think you meant 'not half a century', but even that would be wrong (he died in 1955).

zandorg• 17 years ago

It's called a parody, a piece of satire. Look it up.

It's making fun of the modern employment system's aversion to free thinkers (and thereby scientific geniuses).

aswanson• 17 years ago

In his real review he was given a second-rate raise with the promise of a better one the next year at the patent office [1].

His manager cited his lack of mastery of Mechanical Engineering as the reason for a second-rate review and raise.

[1] Einstein: A Life. Bryan, Denis. John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (April 6, 1996)

{EDIT: Spacing and grammatic corrections]

Ardit202• 17 years ago

right, is that a true story cus I am confused.

nsoonhui• 17 years ago

Seen this N times, but still couldn't resist to upvote this enough...

Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein

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