Matt O'Donnell
@modonnell
On a never-ending search for interesting things
Matt O'Donnell
@modonnell
On a never-ending search for interesting things
"Stop trying to be "balanced." Balanced people don't change the world, nor are they particularly interesting. Be yourself, embrace the highs and lows, live a little."
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."