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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.
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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