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The richest source material for good work is conversation.

it takes two to think Nix Dec 30, 2024 218 8 69 Share Jack Vettriano, The Singing Butler The richest source material for good work is conversation. I loved this Nature Biotechnology article by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher (from which this post takes its name) which emphasizes the potency of two-person interactions for frontier scientific discovery, but more broadly, why any field benefits from the meeting of two electric minds: An intelligent interlocuter can offer crucial additional benefits over a passive medium by exposing flaws in our reasoning, suggesting new directions of thought, or po

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