I occasionally talk to people without a lot of research training (eg. they're in undergrad,non-technical degrees etc) who want to help push forward the frontier of technology.
This is great! I'm sure there are ways for all sort of skillsets to contribute, but my real advice is:
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Go really deep at the object level on a neglected area of technology and build up your intuition there for building things out of atoms.
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Keep your eyes open for the things that other people are overlooking.
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THEN if you don't have a screaming voice in the back of your head yelling at you about what to do (you probably will) it makes sense to start looking at what you can do at the meta-level.
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Apparently several people who are smarter than me agree:
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Very interesting to me that both @patrickc and @LauraDeming posts on advice start with the same thing:
"Go deep on things. Become an expert."
"Get obsessed with a topic"
patrickcollison.com/advice
ldeming.posthaven.com/advice-for-amb
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I'm actually not sure that you can build the kind of expertise I'm talking about by spending only an hour every day.
You kind of need to marinate in something intensely and get frustrated and work through frustration to build finger knowledge.
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True: spend an hr everyday for a year on a narrow subject and you will be an expert in your country, for 2 years in the world
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