Sriya Sridhar
@sris
Academic studying privacy and attention, seeking things that make sense and perpetual calm. Lit and poetry are my first loves
Sriya Sridhar
@sris
Academic studying privacy and attention, seeking things that make sense and perpetual calm. Lit and poetry are my first loves
If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People sl
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