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There are so, so many of these men freckled throughout history. Paul Erdős, a renown mathematician characterized by his eclectic genius and all-consuming obsession with math, didn’t butter his own toast until he was an adult. There are several stories recounting how he often offloaded domestic or non-math related tasks to the women in his life
on monsters
so much AI stuff focuses on giving you results without letting you participate in the process, as if the thinking/digging/discovery is purely an obstacle and not the whole point at times
If you look at the exceptional outpouring of art in the Renaissance, it came from the few city states that had amenable, even modern, rulers.
Rohit Krishnan • Eureka! On the clustering of geniuses
Like all young entrepreneurs, I’ve had plenty of moments where I came across an idea and thought: “This is it! I’ve found it. This is going to be huge.” And none of those turned in to anything meaningful. But this small, insignificant-at-the-time little conversation somehow became something very important to my life’s story.
Dan Shipper • Latent serendipity
I can’t imagine anything less interesting in business than maximizing shareholder value. Yet this is what public companies are pressured — if not legally required — to do. A lot of non-public companies follow the same path towards performance and results.
To take it further, maximization as a concept just isn’t interesting to me. I don’t care about... See more
To take it further, maximization as a concept just isn’t interesting to me. I don’t care about... See more
A Rant Against Maximization
"Harder" might not be the right word. Let me rephrase: Launching a successful product is riskier than ever and more dependent on random forces than ever. In the past, a producer could rely on their own manufacturing capacity and on relationships with powerful gatekeepers to guarantee a product's success. It did not always work, but it often worked.