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Richard Feynman's Letter on What Problems to Solve - Farnam Street

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In this letter, Richard Feynman argues the worthwhile problems are the ones you can really contribute something meaningful to or help solve.

Letters | Reading Time: 3 minutes Richard Feynman’s Letter on What Problems to Solve “No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.” *** In a letter dated February 3rd, 1966, included in the wonderful anthology Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard Feynman , Richard Feynman (1918-1988) timelessly describes “worthwhile problems.” We tend to think of these problems as the big ones, though they need not be. The letter is part of a chain of communication that started with a former student, Koichi

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