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Invert, always invert. Many hard problems are best solved when you turn them around in reverse. It is not enough to think about what you want — think equally hard about what you want to avoid, and you will find that removing stupidity is often more valuable than adding brilliance.

— Charlie Munger, USC Law School Commencement Address (1994)
5d ago

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Déceler, c'est créer. To detect is to create.

1w ago

Invert, always invert. Many hard problems are best solved when you turn them around in reverse. It is not enough to think about what you want to achieve — ask yourself what would guarantee failure, then avoid it.

4w ago
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How the Crossword Conquered America

When you're solving a crossword, the crossword is all there is. A four-walled world of squares and clues with one objective and one correct solution. There is a problem, and the problem is solvable. What I am really high on, when I am living in that little world, is control.

1mo ago

Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backwards. What happens if all our plans go wrong? Where do we not want to go, and how do you get there? Instead of asking how to succeed, ask how to guarantee failure—then avoid it.

2mo ago

The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem that he can spend his life working on.

3mo ago
longreads.com
When Your Digital Life Vanishes

The company regularly buys brand-new devices and tears them to pieces. "It's like the jaws of life," Cobb said. "If a car gets absolutely demolished, you need to know what to cut and what not to cut."

3mo ago
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #188

What Arc and the OpenAI Foundation are doing is what private capital and motivated foundations can do that institutional science usually can't: pick a hard problem, fund a full-stack experimental-and-AI engine, and run the loop fast enough that we might actually get somewhere by the time it matters to my family.

3mo ago

The difference between a business that's working and one that isn't is that the working one has solved the hard problem, and the non-working one hasn't. Most people spend all their time on easy problems.

3mo ago

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