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As a businesslike man, he would pile up a mound of flints at the turn of the path and knock one away every time he passed to ensure he made a predetermined number of circuits without having to interrupt his train of thought. Five turns around the path amounted to half a mile or so. The Sandwalk was where he pondered. In this soothing routine, a sense of place became preeminent in Darwin’s science. It shaped his identity as a thinker.
On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking
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DH: Generally, I don’t think hardware is hard. I think hardware is hard to get started, but once you have it started, it’s actually one of the easiest machines to keep going. It doesn’t have a lot of the disadvantages of software, where software is always on the edge of oblivion effectively, it’s always one line of code away from everything collapsing. With hardware, you get to start over each time, but you have all the supply chains and you have all the tools ready. And so that’s always constantly being made fresh. I think that hardware is actually, in a lot of ways, is a great industry.
An Interview With Midjourney Founder David Holz About Generative AI, VR, and Silicon Valley
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Here’s a secret: All guesses are educated guesses because there is almost no estimate you could make about which you literally know nothing.
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