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Too much to learn for too little benefit. It all depends on what you want out of life.
by kafkaesq 9y ago
Too much to learn for too little benefit.
It all depends on what you want out of life.
- knn 9y agoExactly - if you want to make choices based off what's economically the best (studying CS), that's fine. But there's so much beauty in the world that is "impractical" to reach for (like studying music, art, seeing nature, etc)
- qmalzp 9y agoI'm happy with my path: Youthful idealism -> number theory Mature pragmatism -> pivot to CS It was entirely luck that my passion was so closely related to the current gold rush.
- auggierose 9y agoYep, it does. If you are ready to give one month of your life to understand "perfectoid spaces", that might be a wise choice, you can only really tell once you've done it, because there doesn't seem to be an upfront way of knowing what you are going to get out of it. On the other hand, I am currently investing two weeks into learning "geometric algebra" because I found a book that tells me in its introduction why it's worth for me to learn it.