flâneur

Rathna Shan Reddy

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highlights — 8

  • I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don’t know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance
    You And Your Research · Gwern.net
  • He rejects the comfortable half-existence of drifting with the indeterminate human tide and manifests his bold vision into the world
    Quit Your Job
  • Relatedly, it’s unfair and wasteful for the people who could be out there exploring and building the future on their own dime to be either working normal jobs or simply managing their money for profit
    Quit Your Job
  • Productive exploration requires the application of skilled personal judgment to chasing hunches and interesting problems without narrow material and objective constraints
    Quit Your Job
  • someone needs to be exploring off of the established road, where there is a high probability of failing to accomplish anything at all, and a significant probability of discovering and exploiting the next big breakthroughs.
    Quit Your Job
  • This efficient pursuit of predictable value is the quiet dignity of the mass of working people.
    Quit Your Job
  • In retrospect it is interesting to note that the originalproblem that started my research is still outstanding—namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynami-cally over time, particularly planning dynamically underuncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solvedit could (eventually through better planning) contribute tothe well-being and stability of the world.
    Linear Programming
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding