[Classic] The Lottery of Fascinations
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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I Don't Like Math
It's not that I don't recognize that math is awesome. It's just that when you put actual equations in front of me, with numbers and symbols and variables, my brain melts. So discoursing on the beauty and importance of math does not suddenly make math books more readable to me. In every other field, concepts slide naturally into my mind; but math is like constructing a Lego set on a picnic table outside in the middle of a thunderstorm. If there were a camps for people who didn't enjoy math enough to pursue it, I would totally go to one.
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