When people feel distressed about a problem in the world, they often think about what they can do to help. But the wrong kind of help can sometimes make things worse. The urge to do something — anything — can lead us to take actions that feel good but don't actually address the underlying problem.
Most people think that to make a difference, you need to find the biggest problem and throw yourself at it. But research suggests this kind of thinking can actually lead to worse outcomes — because the more overwhelming a problem seems, the more likely people are to do nothing at all.
I think the problem itself is important right this is new knowledge for humanity that the proof itself is actually very elegant and beautiful and I think that there's a lot to learn from it
the reasoning traces look remarkably similar to the work of an expert mathematician, including choosing promising approaches, backtracking when they fail, and combining ideas from across the literature.
The most counterintuitive thing I've learned is that the best way to build a durable company is to be obsessively focused on the problem, not the solution. Most founders fall in love with their solution, which makes them blind to feedback. But if you're in love with the problem, every piece of negative feedback is a gift because it gets you closer to actually solving it.
Most people think about company building as: you get a great idea, you find product market fit, and then you scale. But the most durable companies are built by people who are obsessed with a problem, not a solution — because the solution will change many times, but the problem stays constant.
Complicated things come together the same way every time. A set of Legos. Instructions to build a Ferrari. Complex things change as you interact with them. So, the question asked is it more like building a watch? Is it more like raising a teenager?
The problem is that we're often led to believe that we need to think outside the box, but actually the most creative solutions often come from people who have gone so deep into a box that they understand the nuances and the constraints so well that they can find new pathways within it that others couldn't see.
A concentration of a few good people solving problems far in advance—and at a fraction of the cost—of other groups by applying the simplest, most straightforward methods possible to develop and produce new projects.
A concentration of a few good people solving problems far in advance—and at a fraction of the cost—of other groups by applying the simplest, most straightforward methods possible to develop and produce new projects. All it is really is the application of common sense to some pretty tough problems.
