Mr. Taleb is so calculatedly abrasive in this smart, attention-getting little book that he achieves his main objective.
"His power is in his ability to be playful, make the citizen feel smart, bring attention to things they perhaps haven't paid attention to before, and give them credit for doing it," says Young. "He's on to something, and people are going to want to get on that train.
We just happen to like it when the ladies show a little smarts and attention to detail and don't just slather on the bronzing cream, squeeze into a pink, rhinestoned tube top, and call it being hot.
Everybody and their brother is getting into the content business these days, and those who want to stand out need to make moves that are both smart and attention-getting.
And then saying, 'O.K., How do you take a math teacher who's in the third quartile and teach them how to get kids interested — get the kid who's smart to pay attention, a kid who's behind to pay attention?' Teaching a teacher to do that — you have to follow the exemplars".
Political analysts say Mr. Bright is smart to pay attention to the Wiregrass voters.
"A leader leads by doing things when no one pays attention," Smart said.
MAYBE it's because really smart people have attention spans that are too long.
We know it will be hard in Dublin: games against Ireland are always tough because they're very smart in their attention to detail as well as intense in their physicality.
He says the key to living in a tiny home is smart design and attention to detail.
There's potential for both, especially for the latter (thanks to Harry Potter), but other young web entrepreneurs would be smart to pay attention to what happens to the site over the next year — it should be an interesting litmus.
