Jake
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writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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Before an interview, I sometimes re-read this great passage from Philip Roth’s American Pastoral :
You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you’re anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you’re with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician | The New Yorker
Rivka Galchennewyorker.comGreat questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
paulgraham.com • What You'll Wish You'd Known
