What's Good for the Bee?

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There's this idea that I come back to sometimes, which I use the phrase, what's good for the hive is not always good for the bee. What if you're thinking about the individual bee and the bees like, I'm hungry and I want to find food or whatever? I don't know if that's actually how bees work. But let's assume this particular bee has to find its own food. Like, that doesn't mean that the bee should go search around randomly just because that works for the hive, right? And so I think about this where it's like looking at society, it might work pretty well to have people try, you know, follow their curiosity, try

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How are curiosity and innovation connected? What's the most important problem in your field? And are you working on it? Why or why not? Is curiosity the best heuristic — either for an individual or for society at large — for finding valuable problems to work on? What mental models do people tend to use by default? How much is an academic degree worth these days? What are some alternatives to degrees that could count as valid credentials, i.e., as unfakeable (or very-hard-to-fake) signals of someone's level of skill in an area? Can people learn to fake any kind of signal, or are there some that are inherently unfakeable?

Rohit Krishnan is an essayist at Strange Loop Canon, where he writes about business, tech, and economics. He's been an entrepreneur and an investor and is very excited to see when crazy ideas meet the real world. Follow him on Twitter at @krishnanrohit.

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