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They look high hanging fruits when you haven't yet reached them. They look low hanging fruits when you have risen above them.
by jve 1y ago
They look high hanging fruits when you haven't yet reached them.
They look low hanging fruits when you have risen above them.
- kartoffelsaft 1y agoThis seems written to sound like a profound piece of wisdom, but I find it difficult to not interperet it as a very flowery way of saying "git gud." If that is indeed what you mean then that is fine, but it is still worth acknowledging that the greater competition for funding of today means scientists of today are not playing the same game as scientists of Bell Labs's time.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoBy definition the vast majority of scientists are mediocore… so isn’t it a tautology that almost all of them wouldn’t be “playing the same game” as the 99.9th+ percentile assembled anywhere?
- 98codes 1y agoPut another, I think more accurate way: hindsight is always 20/20. Very often, the thing that seemed impossible that suddenly wasn't anymore looks "obvious" when looking back at the completed solution.