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I feel like people are just way too unambitious in general, and not in the ambition of wanting to be better than other people, but they just don't think of big projects. They don’t work on them; they don’t have, like, big dreams to do cool things. Or if they are, it’s usually just something like I don’t know, it just boils down to something like social status.
Scott Young - Ultralearning, the MIT Challenge
Dwarkesh Patel
My own success has been in observing objects in daily use which, it was always assumed, could not be improved. By lateral thinking the 'Edisonian approach'- it is possible to arrive, empirically, at an advance. Anyone can become an expert in anything in six months, whether it is hydrodynamics for boats or cyclonic systems for vacuum cleaners. After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology.
My first cyclonic vacuum cleaner was built out of cereal packets and masking tape (like some grotesque Blue Peter spaceship), long before I understood how it worked. After that initial 'Eureka!' it was a long haul to the Dual Cyclone-so called because an outer cyclone rotating at 200 m.p.h. removes large debris and most of the dust, while an inner cyclone rotating at 924 m.p.h. creates huge gravitational force and drives the finest dust, even particles of cigarette smoke, out of the air.
Against the Odds
James Dyson
We use symbols to map/narrate our reality so that we can interact within the same context as other humans who share those symbols/narratives. Within that context, we add information to make decisions about those symbols.
A largely shared narrative and symbology that organizes people en mass is an ideology.
Metamodern Choice – A Lee – Medium
A Lee
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