Given how many of the great scientific discoveries have come about during miracle years, we should do everything we can to help smart 20-somethings have an annus mirabilis. We should free them up from rote menial work, prevent them from being too exposed to the current paradigm, and give them the freedom to explore far fetched ideas without arbitrary deadlines or time consuming obligations. It’s a bit depressing that I have just described the opposite of the modern PhD program.
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Three simple statements will lead us towards our ultimate answer about the importance of religion: 1. Don’t copy your neighbors
2. Time moves forward
3. The future will be different from the present- David Perell, Peter Thiel's Religion
Don’t worry about being a small fish in a big pond—you want to always be in the best pond possible, because that’s how you will get exposed to the best people and the best opportunities in your field.
- Marc Andreessen, Marc Andreessen's Guide to Career Planning
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This goes along really well with Adam Mastroianni's "Rise and Fall of Peer Review." Not sure if you've already come across that one. It's amazing how stagnant we have built our systems to be.
https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review?r=aimy5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web