PSA: to the extent that you think i am cool, i 0% did it this wayhttps://twitter.com/Kpaxs/status/1178263430706454528 …
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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)
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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 …
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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
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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.
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