Nobody Knows Anything - by Rohit Krishnan
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on living with ignorance
I have not published much of what I wrote the last month. This wasn’t due to lack of writing, but because I got extremely busy with a forthcoming major project. Some of you already know, and this will get launched properly soon! But meanwhile. As I’m beginning to work on some knotty problem, I start to think about something that I think about fairly often as it is, which is how nobody knows anything. In almost any of these kinds of endeavours with respect to human life, if you think you actually know something about this, you probably don’t. Almost every piece of advice that you hear is…
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