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I'm like the worst person on earth to be giving anyone else advice about that!! Do you have any idea how much time I waste obsessively reading the news, or wor
by ScottAaronson 8y ago
I'm like the worst person on earth to be giving anyone else advice about that!! Do you have any idea how much time I waste obsessively reading the news, or worrying about people saying mean things about me on social media, rather than doing research or anything else useful for the world? I suppose my advice would be: don't do what I do. As my former PhD adviser, Umesh Vazirani, likes to tell people, "concentrate on the high-order bits."
- dreeves 8y agoI hear that. But followup question! What do you think of commitment devices (like Beeminder!) for imposing discipline on oneself?
- davesque 8y agoIt's actually really encouraging to hear that Scott has many of the same vices as me.
- VladimirGolovin 8y ago> how much time I waste obsessively reading the news This is oddly comforting. As Tim Ferris said in Tools of Titans, every successful person is dysfunctional in some way. I guess the trick is to work around your own personal deficiensies, and that's something everyone must figure out on their own.