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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Grok Bookmarks Communities Premium Verified Orgs Profile More Post kristie! @kristiehuang Post See new posts Conversation Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt I’ve noticed people who have good creative ideas usually know tons of things. Good researchers have read a lot of papers. Good musicians have listened to a lot of songs. Not only that, they generally have strong opinions about what’s good/bad out there. I wonder why? I strongly suspect a causal relationship that goes something like this: “Everything is a remix”, so having good raw ingredients in your head enables good output. In fact, in some domains I’d argue that getting the prereqs into your head is the hardest step! Much of a PhD is getting to the starting line: ingesting enough prior work to have a chance at original contributions. There’s also taste. Good taste comes from sampling tons of things and understand

Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt I’ve noticed people who have good creative ideas usually know tons of things. Good researchers have read a lot of papers. Good musicians have listened to a lot of songs. Not only that, they generally have strong opinions about what’s good/bad out there. I wonder why? I strongly suspect a causal relationship that goes something like this: “Everything is a remix”, so having good raw ingredients in your head enables good output. In fact, in some domains I’d argue that getting the prereqs into your head is the hardest step! Much of a PhD is getting to the starting line:

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