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Now, to really get our heads around why sermons are interesting, it pays to contrast them with  lectures . Both take roughly the same form: a one-to-many broadcast. But they have different functions (moralizing vs. imparting knowledge), and — please bear with me here — in order to fulfill these different functions, they require different

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Make stuff only you can make. Stuff that makes you sigh in resignation after waiting for someone else to make happen so you can enjoy it, and realizing that’s never going to happen so you have to get off the couch and do it yourself

Both human and machine intelligence seem infinite to me.

Avoid forcing people to multitask. It is difficult for them to do two things at once

This could be as much as an accelerant for biomedicine as the internet was for software

The other big factor for me is, when I start to get interested in a topic, I try to go talk to the smartest enthusiasts and smartest critics. Sometimes as you do this you discover the critics are really well informed and have strong arguments. Other times you discover the opposite. I specifically decided to devote my career to crypto/web3 a few... See more