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Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
"Explore a single individual deeply enough and truths about all individuals emerge." - Robert Caro
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Response to Tyler Cowen on eternal growth
aka. Why we need a director's cut of Stubborn Attachments
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Dwarkesh Patel
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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…
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Talent as leverage
10x engineers, tech bubbles, and the PayPal mafia
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Dwarkesh Patel
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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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Dwarkesh Patel
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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
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Dwarkesh Patel
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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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Dwarkesh Patel
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