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It seems like there are two degrees of freedom: you can choose the people whose opinions you care about (and on what subjects), and you can choose the timescale you care about them on. Most people figure out the former [1] but the latter doesn’t seem to get much attention.
The Strength of Being Misunderstood
Sam Altman
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Our task today is to find singular ways to create the new things that will make the future not just different, but better to go from 0 to 1. The essential first step is to think for yourself. Only by seeing our world anew, as fresh and strange as it was to the ancients who saw it first, can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.
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