Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full) - LessWrong
Success is supposed to open doors and broaden horizons. But often it can do the opposite - trapping people in narrow specialties or roles they've out…
x Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full) — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2020 Social & Cultural Dynamics Social Status Curated 327 Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full) by alkjash 26th Oct 2020 Linkpost for radimentary.wordpress.com 10 min read 69 327 I. Parables A. Anna is a graduate student studying p-adic quasicoherent topology . It’s a niche subfield of mathematics where Anna feels comfortable working on neat little problems with the small handful of researchers interested in this topic. Last year, Anna stumbled upon a connection between her pet problem and algebraic matroid theory, solvi
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