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- gsf_emergency_2 2y agoCicero/Confucius could have done much better. Lao Zi/Kolmogorov actively stayed out of politics, and "did" arguably more impactful things (as in, people are still debating the details of just what is so amazing about the things they'd done..) >Archimedes knew that he was the first "It is not enough to do new things, others must provably not be able to do the same class of things"? [That explains Newton's apparent vindictiveness? Wrt Hooke/Leibniz/the counterfeiters etc] >you can explain what everyone else is overlooking about it. I replaced "good" with "productive" here, but this essay tells me that could be further improved with "inspiring" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589627 Lagniappe: https://youtu.be/lmTmGLzPVyM https://youtu.be/lmTmGLzPVyM