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Not every kind of hard is good. There is good pain and bad pain. You want the kind of pain you get from going running, not the kind you get from stepping on a nail.

Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age

Paul Graham

The two fundamental questions of causality are: (1) What empirical evidence is required for legitimate inference of cause-effect relationships? (2) Given that we are willing to accept causal information about a phenomenon, what inferences can we draw from such information, and how?

Judea Pearl - Causality_ Models, Reasoning, and Inference-Cambridge University Press

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Whenever an entrepreneur asks me to invest in his company, I ask him how much he intends to pay himself. A company does better the less it pays the CEO-that's one of the single clearest patterns I've noticed

Zero to One

Peter Phiel

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