[HN Gopher] Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
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       Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
        
       Author : savagejohn
       Score  : 70 points
       Date   : 2023-07-26 19:22 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | nwoli wrote:
       | Kind of a great quote by Altman there
        
         | wintogreen74 wrote:
         | I personally hate this train of thought. It sounds identical to
         | the "all great things originally looked like toys" and then
         | this gets twisted to the invalid conclusion that "all toys will
         | eventually be great". His logic also seems to contradict their
         | early validation mantra. I'd appreciate an even more strict
         | filter on startup ideas, preventing so much waste on multiple
         | versions of the same unneeded projects.
        
       | henrydark wrote:
       | > Grothendieck was, to be clear, a strong mathematician compared
       | to most anyone, but these peers were the most talented young
       | mathematicians in France, and unlike Grothendieck, who had spent
       | the war in an internment camp at Rieucros, near Mende, they had
       | been placed in the best schools and tutored.
       | 
       | Weil was also in a camp. Honestly, I can't stand Geothendieck.
       | Where's the piece about how sociable Serre and Deligne were (and
       | still are), and how much they contributed along side
       | Geothendieck, but without going full bonkers?
       | 
       | Fine, schemes and etale topology are great, the category theory
       | viewpoint is enlightening, but at the end of the day I'm
       | interested in Deligne's (two) proof(s), in Mazur's torsion
       | theorem, in Wiles' theorem, etc. Grothendieck's foundation is
       | said to be fundamental to all of these, but I'm not so sure.
        
         | jjgreen wrote:
         | J.-P. Serre is indeed a gentleman, I had occasion to be a
         | passenger in a car with him (and Giles Pisier) many years ago,
         | me a no-mark grad student sitting with two giants. He quizzed
         | me about my work and seemed genuinely interested in my relies,
         | I knew this was all kid's stuff to him; kindness personified.
        
       | wwarner wrote:
       | I thought it was a good read. Basically the essay argues that one
       | should make time, and summon the requisite courage, to look for
       | new ideas and new ways of thinking. Imo it applies to any
       | decision that must be made alone.
        
       | analyticcadep wrote:
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