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#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Hardest Thing About Creating Knowledge Is That You Think You Have Good Taste

In founding things, the toughest thing is that you don't want to cast a shadow. And so i noticed early on I was building more to make myself central than asking my question. Do i create obsolescence of self? That's actually a much better huristic. It forces you to ask what parts of you are essential and then distil them into something others can do. In that process, articulated knowledge is always better than unarticulated second....

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