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Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work.
Thinking anything that's out of your control is in your way.
These are thoughts not conducive to the work.
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investments in brand-new crypto protocols because he thinks “the market’s going up” and because he hopes that those protocols can hire people and build value. This is a venture capital investment. And he describes it as an *arbitrage* .
Fwd: Money Stuff: Crypto Had a Credit Bubble
Josh Beckman
I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether I have a dutiful stance towards some aspect of my research. Once I notice, I can usually summon curiosity by asking lots of questions, imagining potential implications, and so on. Michael Nielsen has some great notes on tactics for this in his [Notes on creative contexts](https://michaelnotebook.com/creative_context/index.html).. Often I need to improve the framing, to find one which better expresses what I’m deeply excited about. If I can’t find a problem statement which captures my curiosity, it’s best to drop the project for now.
Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
Andy Matuschak
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