I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
Tell the internet a story
ghostagency.substack.com
Incrementally improving an explanation of a technical idea might take a single author weeks to do, but could go on to save a day for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of students, if it becomes the best option available.
Robert Wiblin • Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
I just think if your best ideas are locked away in some dense textbook, by its very nature it's not going to reach a lot of the audience you want it to
Eugene Wei • Eugene Wei – Tech, Media, and Culture - [Invest Like the Best, EP.117]
Ideas have a bad reputation. They're a dime a dozen. They're worthless unless implemented.
prog21.dadgum.com • Get Good at Idea Generation
Speaking towards this goal, the next lesson I’ve come to learn is that imagining the New Internet is not the same as building it. In my time around the archipelago of internet reform there have been no shortage of ambitious ideas. In the process of implementing said ideas, it was revealed time and time again that ambitiousness does not equal practi... See more
Since 2016 I have been exploring this idea and have made many attempts to explain it in different essays. None of these attempts have fully captured it, but I think the idea is so important and so explains certain features of our world that I keep trying again and again. In this piece I want to briefly outline how I arrived at this idea and develop... See more