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Krishna Bansal

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on the atlas — 22

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  • he seems to have realised bound notebooks would be too restrictive when making notes for what was to become a twenty-year research programme. Instead, as we have already seen, he began to maintain a series of different loose-leaf portfolios dedicated to individual research topics.
    Charles Darwin’s note-making system – The Friends of Charles Darwin
  • Technical training requires a level of immersion, undivided attention, and frankly – discomfort that you can only really devote when you’re young and relatively responsibility-free. Finally, maybe I’m old school or wrong, but I hold the controversial opinion that deep technical subjects are just harder and more rigorous than others. If you can master them, you can master anything else if you put your mind to it.
    Precocious Young People Should Do Deep Technical Training