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Naval and others on Freedom, Consensus, Zone of Genius, Identity, and the Evolution of Truth [Airchat Part 2]

Scaling Knowledge

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The Origins of the Great Scientists

The great scientists are generally it's hard to speak in absolutes but are generally tankerers. They're broad multi-disciplinary thinkers. They like to play with things. They have a sense of awe and wonder at the natural world. It really helps to be surrounded by other bright people at kind of the right age either in a university or a peer setting. I don't know if there's a single simple formula to it but sure it's worth teasing apart.

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