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The mystery of the miracle year
An interesting pattern recurs across the career of great scientists: an annus mirabilis (miracle year) in which they make multiple, seemingly…
Dwarkesh Patel
Apr 14
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Talent as leverage
10x engineers, tech bubbles, and the PayPal mafia
Dwarkesh Patel
Apr 12
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❤️ + Musings
Girard at Jamestown, VC bubbles, Elon’s ambition, big tech R&D as F1 cars, med-school mania, and the entrepreneurial middle class.
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Apr 20
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The myth of the myth of the well read person
I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John…
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Mar 20
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Examples of barbell strategies
On taking advantage of both extremes of risk and reward in friendship, caffeination, reading, dating, working, and more
Dwarkesh Patel
Mar 10
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Visakan Veerasamy - Singapore, Talent, & History
Listen now | Visakan Virasamy is an eccentric Singaporean who weaves together of sparkling web of insight, wit, and positivity throughout the world of…
Dwarkesh Patel
May 18
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29: Visakan Veerasamy - Singapore, Talent, & History
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Scouting talent as buying options
Why volatility and youth are signals of potential
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Feb 10
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Popularizers are intellectual market makers
"People dismiss intellectual market makers who get famous off the spread between an interesting study and a New York Times best selling book. But…
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Feb 15
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On Samo Burja's Great Founder Theory
"The problem with theories of history is that they are all correct"
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Jan 4
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Contra David Deutsch on AI
"The universal explainers hypothesis is incorrect because it cannot explain why some animals are smart and some humans are stupid."
Dwarkesh Patel
Jan 17
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Book Review - Unix: A History and a Memoir
If you want to build a program that runs of millions of computers, find the smartest person in the room, give him the shittiest of those million…
Dwarkesh Patel
Jun 16, 2021
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Some questions about great talent curation
Tony Kulesa recently wrote an interesting blog post explaining why Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world. It focuses on Tyler’s…
Dwarkesh Patel
Sep 16, 2021
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