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Ep. 220: The Two Types of Ambition

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How Did You Structure the Reading of Hard Papers Without a Formal Forcing Function?

The first thing you did was it's hard to understand these fundamental papers. Having that knowledge will be useful quick follow up here because I get this question a lot. How did you actually structure the reading of hard papers without a formal forcing function? You just had a system quota. Okay. By the way, we got to work like my team for the DARPA robotics challenge, go to work with those like Atlas human noise robots from Boston dynamics. So yeah, pretty crazy platform to be working on. Also terrifying, but yeah, go on. Yeah.

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