Jim Keller (famous cpu designer; Lex Fridman interview)[1]: "Really? To get out of all your assumptions, you think that's not going to be unbelievably painful?"

Jim Keller (famous cpu designer; Lex Fridman interview)[1]: "Really? To get out of all your assumptions, you think that's not going to be unbelievably painful?" "Imagine 99% of your thought process is protecting your self conception, and 98% of that's wrong". "For a long time I've suspected you could get better [...] think more clearly, take things apart [...] there are lots of examples of that, people who do that". "I would say my brain has this idea that you can question first [sic] assumptions, and but I can go days at a time and forget that, and you have to kind of like circle back to that observation [...] it's hard to keep it front and center [...]". [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=4962s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=4962s