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- Author: benkuhn.net
- Full Title:: You Don’t Need to Work on Hard Problems
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/
- Finished date:: 2023-11-07
Highlights
most graduates of elite schools—including me—start out being completely unable to identify which work is actually important. (And if some important work does happen to hit us over the head, it won’t come in the form of a puzzle with a grading rubric, so we won’t know how to execute it well.) Instead, we’ll keep trying to run our college playbook, and look for hard problems. (View Highlight)
Frequently, we’ll find them by making easy problems hard, with hilarious/depressing results. The upper ranks of Big Tech are filled with people who made their careers writing bizarre custom databases, or building Big Data infrastructure that could be replaced with a laptop (View Highlight)