sari
humans aren’t good at making things from scratch. our true genius, he thinks, lies in the art of taking something and evolving it, responding to it, combining it.
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."
going slow and patience
Human Behavior and
- All of the things you can do 'slightly better' add up to your core advantage.
this insight from Visa:
when you have a game-changing insight you’ll often have to repeat it for 5-7 years before people start to really get it
- If only people could write like they talk, they’d be better writers.
- via Albert Einstein: “It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.”