Saved by Keely Adler and
Advice · Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison • Advice · Patrick Collison
- In particular, try to go deep on multiple things. (To varying degrees, I tried to go deep on languages, programming, writing, physics, math. Some of those stuck more than others.) One of the main things you should try to achieve by age 20 is some sense for which kinds of things you enjoy doing. This probably won't change a lot throughout your life
Patrick Collison • Advice · Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison • Advice · Patrick Collison
- More broadly, nobody is going to teach you to think for yourself. A large fraction of what people around you believe is mistaken. Internalize this and practice coming up with your own worldview. The correlation between it and those around you shouldn't be too strong unless you think you were especially lucky in your initial conditions.
Patrick Collison • Advice · Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison • Advice · Patrick Collison
If you're 20–30: I don't know yet. I plan to think about this when I'm 35-40.
patrickcollison.com • Advice · Patrick Collison
Make sure that the things you're pursuing are weird things that you want to pursue, not whatever the standard path is. Heuristic: do your friends at school think your path is a bit strange? If not, maybe it's too normal.
patrickcollison.com • Advice · Patrick Collison
practice coming up with your own worldview.
patrickcollison.com • Advice · Patrick Collison
Make things. Operating in a space with a lot of uncertainty is a very different experience to learning something.