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There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.

Schlep Blindness

paulgraham.com

I wrote custom software for the annoying things I have to do frequently, which is great.  I also made an effort to learn to type really fast and the keyboard shortcuts that help with my workflow.

Productivity

blog.samaltman.com

Given n shapes in n dimensional space, there is an (n – 1) dimensional plane that cuts each of the shapes exactly in half.

The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories & Things

Robert Solomon

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