Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "@patrickc Love this book+talk so much; this philosophy has been tremendously animating (and frustrating?) for me." / Twitter

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's post (blog.samaltman.com/founder-depres) -- I generally find the founder mythos to be an exaggerated trope, but this issue is real.

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Necessarily an emotional superposition: extreme optimism (otherwise why bother?) and extreme sensitivity (otherwise you miss the problems).

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Hamming on the importance of this duality in researchers. books.google.com/books?id=49QuC

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