if you want something important or fun create it
Research as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts . It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now ? It’s fine, and maybe even better, if the topic isn’t explicitly intellectual or academic in nature. And if one topic leads you to another topic that seems totally unrelated, that’s something to get excited
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“Artists excel at creating worlds. They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work, for others… World-building means creating everything — not only making things inside the world but also the surrounding world itself — the language, style, rules, and architecture.” - Yancey Strickler
She understands that children are a pleasure-seeking species, and that adolescence is a delicious last gasp (the light is most golden just before the shadows fall) of rightful selfishness and cluelessness.
Working on difficult problems is also intellectually more rewarding to an engineer, which is who I am, after all. To sustain that interest though, it's important to work on a fun hard problem, one you are passionate about.
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I truly think that autodidacts are responsible for all that is good and great about alternative culture.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
exert your taste on the world to live in a reality you’ve consciously created https://t.co/wKR6LMKBRo
There are also people who are para-academic researchers. While there’s a lot of great computer science and human-computer interaction research happening in academia, I’ve often been disappointed by some of the actual interfaces being produced by the ivory tower. Some of the most interesting work seems to be happening outside academia.
