My Time at MIT

People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new parts of the terrain, and when you find the highest hill, don’t waste any more time on the current hill no matter how much better the next step up might appear .

instead, here are a few high-level prompts that might help you escape flatland. (as usual, the law of equal and opposite advice applies.)

• try lots of things.
  
  build stuff. research stuff. go to random talks. go to random societies. look at stuff that piques your interest, even if it seems weird or sus or irrelevant or illegible or unprestigious or u

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