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Quote:Much of my adult life has been spent rubbing shoulders with smartpeople. In college, in every job I’ve ever had, and in starting my owncompany, these smart people have been colleagues, bosses, and peers.Because my own background is in software development, many ofthese smart people have been at home in that discipline—a science thatis immensely sophisticated, meticulous, and complicated. I am notalone in this regard, as more and more of us are finding our lives affectedby these same smart people and the things they make and do.Over the years, a suspicion has gradually been growing within me.It is a suspicion that I have been slow to voice. However, as the yearshave gone by, and as the evidence has accumulated, I have finally cometo the conclusion that despite smartness, expertise, skill, experience,and genius, some people are lacking an essential skill: common sense.