Amie Pollack
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Amie Pollack
the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he'd come for us after we die, and not when we're still living.
Some group of people must exist who are educated, aware, motivated, and at the bleeding edge of a field…who nonetheless have some spare hours in the workweek to spend innovating on something instead of slavishly executing a task.
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
Most people fall short of the creative ideal. They are satisficers rather than searchers for the optimal or desired solution... and unless they are held accountable for their decision-making strategies, they tend to find the easy way out—either by not engaging in very careful thinking or by modeling the choices on the preferences of those who will ... See more
Tomasz Tunguz • Bias Against Creativity
I think there's a very deep point about the universe being interconnected there, but there's also a really interesting point for people who want to make stuff—write or make podcasts or whatever—because there's this deep fear that everyone has about being pigeonholed. And it's like, well, if I pick this really specific topic, I won't be able to brin... See more
Dan Shipper • Transcript: ‘Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything’
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“Beginning with the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, the United States experienced a lapse in ability, will, and imagination that was astonishing for a nation that, two generations earlier, had made nine missions to the moon. For almost a decade after the last Shuttle mission, the nation had not been able to send humans into space. It was f... See more
We think that we surround ourselves with our interests, but causality often runs the other way: We become interested in what we’re surrounded by.