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Inside the curious mind of XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Are You a Polymath or an Expert in a Specific Thing?

I remember being exposed to people like that in early age. For a long time those were sort of heroes, those people who could jump from idea to idea. And during the pandemic that got underlined a bit where you had people who had no experience in epidemiology or something,. But were able to actually convincingly explain what was going on with the spread of the disease. To me that represents a lot of sort of the best of Silicon Valley thinking for a long time.

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