Need for Cognition Highlighted by Tech Executives

Farhan Thawar, VP and Head of Engineering at Shopify, posted a passage stating that what will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort. The text defines a high need for cognition as enjoyment of thinking hard, playing difficult games, and reading dense books. Sar Haribhakti, AI Product Comms Lead at Stripe, shared the same passage in a separate post. Both included AI-generated headlines on the idea.