Traditional R&D (ie PhDs) is ass-backwards. You should race to your first original idea as fast as poss, *then* invest in discipline mastery
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Spending years "paying your dues" and "learning the foundations" is bs propagated by R&D rent-seekers. Get to the frontier anyhow.
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The probability of novel ideas increases far more rapidly with knowledge than people assume. What n00bs lack is not knowledge but confidence
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It's not just history. It's norms, social forms, myth and ceremony crap. 90% deadweight socialization mean to spare feelings, not think
Great points. You see this blurring due to the growing need for 'soft' skills/360 contextual awareness?


