"I’ve also learned that, if it’s your birthday, you can ask a very nice Ethiopian man very nicely and he will drive you and 9 of your friends 300 miles from Seattle to Portland and then back to Seattle in a H3 stretch limousine for the cost of gas, a lap dance and a steak."

Now this is a story worth hearing...

"Paradoxically, this means that if you want to avoid stupidities, the way to do so is to become even more stupid. It’s only by repeatedly trying stupid things that you can learn where stupidities lie and how to spot them. Being stupid as a reflex is the best way to hone your “wait, this is stupid” detector and gives you a sixth sense about how to spot those buried landmines of stupidities."

Sorry but that's stupid, and I don't just mean "anti-smart". This guy seems to have a fixation on stupidity. Ok, you need to fail a lot before you can win and things like that, but let's not go overboard with it.

The word you are looking for is "rationality." It is indeed a completely separate quality from intelligence.

It might have been nice to see some examples of deep stupidity in the article.

All I got out of the article was you can do stupid stuff and enjoy it.

I think he's confusing anti-stupid with experiencing new things and deciding on the merits of the experience.

I feel stupider for having read that.