Weird: Google has notified me that search hits for “joys of feeling stupid” have gone through the roof! 250 search result clicks in a month is a lot, at least for this humble website.

I mean, it was nice blog post, but it is hardly what people are looking for when googling that, I suppose?! Even weirder: “joys of feeling stupid” doesn’t seem to be a comtemporary viral video, song, or article. What gives?

I don’t really know, but that’s okay. Fitting, even – the mystery of “joys of feeling stupid” making me feel… you know. :)

Update: Mystery solved!

A helpful visitor of this blog (thanks, beni!) pointed me to the source. It’s from an interview (in Turkish) with Beliz Günel, senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Around 3:45, she mentions her mentor who…

…made me read one article, I remember it very much: “Joys of feeling stupid” I liked feeling stupid like that.

Screenshot from Kesişen Yollar’s YouTube channel

Now I want to dig up that article, too, of course! :) Since Günel graduated at Stanford, maybe it’s this article hosted at stanford.edu?

• The importance of stupidity in scientific research
  Martin A. Schwartz, University of Virginia