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37. Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How to Improve Learning Through the Rest of Life

You spent some time as the research lead for the consumer finance protection bureau during the obama administration. You've gained a lot of respect for people who get done because it is insanely hard and we somehow put a lot of weight on ideas but execution is a whole other thing. School is such an artificial way to think about learning it's just too much very directed feedback and then you turn it into the world where you get zero directed feedback. Somehow we're not preparing people i know i was doing badly but i didn't know what i was supposed to do to fix it I think.

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