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Naval: David Deutsch says conjecture plus criticism drive science. Matt Ridley says trial and error drives innovation. Others say variation and selection drive evolution.
These are variations on a theme: try a lot of stuff, get feedback, see what works, and stick with that.
A Distillation of What @...
@jmikolay on Twitter
Principle 7:
Your goal should not be to get a positive ROI on your time. Your goal should be to minimize Opportunity Costs.
ROI = (Value created — Cost of your time) ÷ Cost of your time
Opportunity Cost = Value of optimal option – Value of chosen option
Advanced Time Management...
@shreyas on Twitter
*Right now, today, we can't see the thing, *at all,* that's going to be the most important 100 years from now.*
How did Shannon see information?
Partly, it was Shannon himself. (As Hamming [said](http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html) of him, *"Who but a man of infinite courage could have dared to think those thoughts?"*)
But even Shannon, without tools, is nothing. (As Kay [said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyIQKBzIuBY&t=27m27s), *"Leonardo could not invent a single engine for any of his vehicles. Maybe the smartest person of his time, but he was born in the wrong time. His IQ could not transcend his time."*)
An Ill-Advised Personal Note About "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"
Bret Victor
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