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Advice for young scientists—and curious people in general
From Farnam Street: “If you want to make progress in any area, you need to be willing to give up your best ideas from time to time.” | learn more
Tag: ideas
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Crazy new ideas
“There’s one kind of opinion I’d be very afraid to express publicly. If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a reasonable person proposed an idea that sounded preposterous, I’d be very reluctant to say “That will […]
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Good explanations are hard to vary
This short Naval Ravikant post posits that good explanations, “should make risky and narrow predictions.” Part of his point is that tons of things are falsifiable in fact without leading to progress. Example: “If you eat 1kg of grass, it […]
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Seneca on gathering ideas and combinatorial creativity
“Seneca advised observing and copying the bees, and idea that gave like to combinatorial creativity well before Einstein hit upon the same notion.” | learn more
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Ideas that changed my life
So many great concepts here from Morgan Housel. He starts with, “Everyone belongs to a tribe…” and ends with, “Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the […]
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You’ll figure it out
On management: “A formative idea for a younger me: give the people who work for you a chance to resolve complex issues on their own.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
He was accepted into YC twice, with 2 different ideas, in back-to-back years
What I like about this is the author’s process for idea discovery—going and talking to people in the target market, then building a product that launches quickly to get real feedback. At the same time, this left me with a […]
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How I Optimize
My personal mission is to spend my time working on interesting projects alongside people who I like and respect. How did I get there? Luck found me I’ve been successful and I’ve been lucky. The two are inseparable. Out of […]
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Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance
Farnam Street combines a few disparate examples and ideas to make the point that in some games playing not to lose is the optimal strategy. Know what game you’re playing. | learn more
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Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance
Farnam Street combines a few disparate examples and ideas to make the point that in some games playing not to lose is the optimal strategy. Know what game you’re playing. | learn more