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I frequently wonder how many Einstein level ideas have been lost because people have to work meaningless jobs with mediocre bosses to put food on the table inst
by randmeerkat 6y ago
I frequently wonder how many Einstein level ideas have been lost because people have to work meaningless jobs with mediocre bosses to put food on the table instead.
- savanaly 6y agoIs Einstein the best example to use here? He famously derived the theory of relativity while working a "meaningless job". [0] Now, would he have derived it if he had had access to the HN and twitter skinner boxes? That's another question. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/06/opinion/l-einstein-changed-world-on-office-time-650993.html https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/06/opinion/l-einstein-change...