The 1% different answers people come up with might make them somewhat more famous/rich, but are rarely different enough to change much beyond their own lives. The age-old questions are age old because the answers are in our collective diminishing marginal returns zone.
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Does this, then, map onto doing a PhD, given how it's often a very specific question that most people won't ever care about (or, let's be honest, ever hear about)? I'm struggling with whether it's worth it to take the plunge.
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Academia cares a lot about "importance" - they just have very different criteria from everyone else (you might have to coax in some common criteria if you deal with funding). My point: you're not really free to follow interestingness (as determined by you) there either.
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So follow your energy, interest, and output?
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Love the last line on triviality; it connects to that notion of filtering data differently, where having nerve in thinking is to assign importance to which others do not. Also, Grothendieck’s proofs were described as trivial steps that lead to something nontrivial.
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