
E1: Doing meaningful work
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The Importance of Having an Advisor
I just read the Oppenheimer biography that's going to become a movie have you read that one yet no okay really good. He I not think he wasn't a brilliant person but somehow it almost felt as if yes he came from a very privileged background but he almost stumbled into academia where there's a sort of story where he tries to stab his advisor in some way and like almost like or actually I think he tries to poison them with an apple uh which is reminiscent of other things in computer science history, she says. She also thinks about this in the lens that to go back to the Bell Labs my FOMO is wow okay someone in academia they don't have to deal with okay
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