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Luisa and Robert Long on how to make independent research more fun

80k After Hours

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I've Been Coming to Grips With This Realization That a Lot of My Experience Is Changeable

I've been coming to grips with what has felt like a very sad realization. I just developed this sense that a lot about my experience was changeable. Like you can donate a bunch of your salary and not really miss it. Or you can still be like roughly as happy or you can choose a research topic that is valuable, even if it doesn't totally intrinsically interest you. And that's because you can get really interested in it by some mechanism of like, you think it's important, so you'll be motivated to work on it.

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