Many solved problems aren’t. The amount of exploitable inefficiency in the world is a) staggeringly large and b) likely increasing absolutely. It is surprisingly hard to get people to do things that are in their obvious best interest. Human network microstructure is underratedhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1215673204125073408 …
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Replying to @PetarLalovic
I’d have to really think to come up with an ordinal ranking, but in terms of repeated salience: Geeks underprice themselves. Cron jobs and SaaS apps are underdeployed. Automatic email is scandalously underdeployed. “School” is not near efficient frontier for learning. Coffee.
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“Coffee?” I was running out of characters. Medium confidence belief: many humans are born with caffeine deficiency and should supplement. (There are probably other chemicals which are in this class but caffeine is cheap, safe, and culturally acceptable.)
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If you were a billionaire, had a deadline, and would suffer a material consequence if you did not hit it, would you learn the subject you need in school? If school is efficient, the answer should be yes. Billionaires learn many things which have consequences and deadlines.
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