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PSA: to the extent that you think i am cool, i 0% did it this wayhttps://twitter.com/Kpaxs/status/1178263430706454528 …
taxonomy of ways i became a cooler or better person: - luck - following my instincts - doing weird shit in irregular spurts i am way too much still the kid who coasted through school on raw intelligence to do things using routine and habit, and i have tried (and failed)
shoutout to @visakanv for consistently defending this kind of approach to life. can't find exactly the right tweet to quote but this one works:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1169987062369439745 …
i forgot to mention laziness as a key trait of mine, although arguably it goes under "following my instincts." my 7th grade math teacher once told me that my laziness was my most useful quality as a mathematician and she was 100% right
i was too lazy to solve any problem the hard way so i kept looking for easier and easier ways. that consistently led me to better and better abstractions. why fill out a sheet of quadratic equations when you can rederive the quadratic formula? etc.
you didn't get your math prowess through what felt like willful effort?
no. honestly combination of coasting on raw intelligence + lucky to have a few good mentors growing up, esp. the one who made me do math contests and summer programs + insistently following my curiosity (but not in a way that felt effortful)
Same
struggling with this around work these days tho
yeah, part of what i mean when i say i got lucky is being extremely financially lucky, i graduated college with no debt and a bunch of savings b/c of my parents, then coasted on an NSF fellowship in grad school, so i’ve never had to hold down a day job really
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