I've been enjoying reading @rabois's debate with others over past day or two on the importance of hard work.
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@m_druker (thanks!) of this Hamming anecdote from his spectacular You and Your Research: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html …pic.twitter.com/IXgIbfSsLd
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If you read and enjoy the talk, there's a full book of this stuff: http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEngineering.pdf …. It is stellar.
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It's also interesting how much passion this question arouses.
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That's how you know it's about values!
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Also the question, "To what degree does working obsessively cause tail outcomes?"
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Seems
@rabois side is "necessary but not sufficient" but other side seems to hear "necessary and sufficient" so chance for misunderstanding
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It seems pretty obvious as a general matter that you won't be the best at something you spend only an average amount of time on.
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But for people who have the privilege to choose, it's up us to decide what we want to be best at, and what the trade-offs are.
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A question about values can have a wrong answer though. Some values are not sustainable for long period.
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