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She lives on a farm in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons

More power to her, her professional success has allowed her to pursue her passion. I think the lesson then is that to pursue your passion you first need to earn it.

Grad school on your resume is a formal announcement of a mistake [if not working in the field]

Success is working forward, and not worrying about or admitting to mistakes

I applaud your nod to empathy

Literature has been shown to increase empathy

There was no literature included in this list (am counting the two SciFi novels as fiction, but not literature)

To anyone looking for an edge, read more literature

... I tried to make my students ask constantly: “What does it communicate me?”

I am pretty sure there is a word missing here, but am still letting it sink in, with regards to the rest of the article :)

Great article though that makes a strong point

I know! but there is a big difference between "sharing" an article, and "liking" an article and having it show up on friends' feeds. its the difference between actively and passively sharing a viewpoint

When someone works really hard on a problem and then puts it out there openly, you have to respect their work. And from their perspective, they've put weeks/months/10 years into a piece of work, and it can come off really bad if you approach them and ask them to explain it to you so that you can understand it in a fraction of the time. For complex ideas, you can talk at somebody and they can get the general gist of it, but for many technical things you don't understand it until it "clicks" from gears moving in your own head. I understand this case is pretty drastic, but his claim that one needs to break down the barriers in their mind shows how much he expects from an individual to understand his work.

YC Research 11 years ago

DE Shaw gave away his hedge fund empire to start DE Shaw Research. He similarly used his own money to start a privately funded research lab. He is their Chief Scientist.