Obsidian Source: Notes / Learnings from PG
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Original source title: Learnings From Pg
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How to do great work: Four steps: choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier, notice gaps, explore promising ones. This is how practically everyone who's done great work has done it, from painters to physicists.
The three most powerful motives are curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive.
Work hard on excitingly ambitious projects, and something good will come of it. Instead of making a plan and then executing it, you just try to preserve certain invariants.
I think for most people who want to do great work, the right strategy is not to plan too much. At each stage do whatever seems most interesting and gives you the best options for the future.
Great work usually entails spending what would seem to most people an unreasonable amount of time on a problem.
One way to avoid intellectual dishonesty is to maintain a slight positive pressure in the opposite direction. Be aggressively willing to admit that you're mistaken.
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