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**Overengineering over indexes on things you know.** Overengineering invents new constraints instead of tackling real ones. The made-up constraints we tell ourselves are usually ones we already know how to solve (known-knowns vs unknown-unknowns).
Stop Overengineering - Matt Rickard
Stop Overengineering
Matt Rickard
A long time ago Steven Weinberg published this excellent set of lessons in Nature. Very much worth reading:
1. It's ok to start research even if you don't know too much
2. Aim for rough waters
3. Forgive yourself for wasting time
4. Learn something about the history of science
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@curiouswavefn on Twitter
Naval: In the age we’re in, decisions get magnified 1,000 times, 100,000 times, or a million times. One person decides to code Facemash at Harvard and it becomes Facebook; the other person decides to code something you've never heard of because it was close but not quite.
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