The Lower Level Things Are More Real Than the Higher Level Things

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Everything we understand is sort of a model. It's like models all the way down. Whatever is really out there, the real stuff, there's just lots and lots of ways to look at it. I think this is the going back to I guess the world become. Do people of different genders have different personalities? To try to answer these questions, our team analyzed enormous amounts of data from 15 separate studies.

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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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