Victor & Graham & Shaw & Taleb & Simler & Hanson

Roam on Sundays I

Welcome to the first edition of Roam on Sundays.

I’ll be sharing my in-depth notes on one famous talk and one essay every Sunday along with three quotes I’m pondering.

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Talk notes

• [[Inventing on Principle]] by [[Bret Victor]]

Essay notes

• [[Fashionable Problems]] by [[Paul Graham]]

Three quotes

• "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman

• "The opportunity cost of missing a "new new thing" like the airplane and the automobile is minuscule compared to the toxicity of all the garbage one has to go through to get to those jewels (assuming these have brought some improvement to our lives, which I frequently doubt)." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Fooled by Randomness

• ""We" don't always know what our brains are up to, but we often pretend to know, and therein lies the trouble." — Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson in The Elephant in the Brain

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