The curiosity theory of everything - by Rohit

"I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious."

Last week we talked about the importance of experimentation to get to the future, but how do you know what experiments to run? This essay’s about that question. I. What drives you to do anything To do anything is an act of faith. To choose a future state that you believe in. But how can we choose what to do? In the old movie The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman was told to go into plastics. It was good advice for 1963. Since then plastics industry went on to grow so much that it effectively saturated the world by the 2000s, growth petering back down to global GDP levels. This is an extraordinary…

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