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Do you think judging someone by your least favorite work of their's is a good strategy? Do you also say, "Newton a genius? The one who tried to turn lead into
by breck 2y ago
Do you think judging someone by your least favorite work of their's is a good strategy?
Do you also say, "Newton a genius? The one who tried to turn lead into gold?"
- jordigh 2y agoHe still parades that around as his magnum opus in his latest blog post: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five-most-productive-years-what-happened-and-whats-next/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five-most-produc... Yeah, I think it's fair to judge him by it.
- breck 2y agoFair enough. Like all of his work, I thought it was an incredible book, if you just randomly sample 10% of it. I never understood why he doesn't cut more, as he has genius ideas that get really watered down with lots of less relevant details. I would love if he started doing 1 page tldr's for all of his works.