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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Lists Bookmarks Communities Profile More Post bloc @monkbloc Post See new posts Conversation Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi In my teens to 20s, I scoffed at friends whose lives seemed to just be about hanging out with friends and playing sports. They were fools. How dare they squander their potential on such quotidian things. How can they not spend every waking moment thinking about Solving Big Humanity-Scale Problems, outperforming their peers, making something of themselves. In middle school, a classmate asked me, "why do you read so much during breaks? Come hang out." Without skipping a beat, I said: "So I wouldn't turn out like you." He never talked to me after that; years later I wish I hadn't said that but I meant it then. Nothing mattered to me besides moving forward. Everything unrelated was simply in the way. I became the first in my bloodline to get into an I

To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Lists Bookmarks Communities Profile More Post bloc @monkbloc Post See new posts Conversation Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi In my teens to 20s, I scoffed at friends whose lives seemed to just be about hanging out with friends and playing sports. They were fools. How dare they squander their potential on such quotidian things. How can they not spend every waking moment thinking about Solving Big Humanity-Scale Problems, outperforming their peers, making something of themselves. In middl