[HN Gopher] What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
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What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
Author : gladuz
Score : 98 points
Date : 2024-05-20 01:43 UTC (21 hours ago)
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| gnicholas wrote:
| I happened to see someone wearing a 3Blue1Brown t-shirt today and
| decided to buy one myself to (modestly) support the channel. In
| addition to shirts, there are also socks and stuffed animals,
| apparently: https://store.dftba.com/collections/3blue1brown
| paradox242 wrote:
| My son is 4 and saw me watching one of his videos with the
| colorful Pi characters and was intrigued. After multiple
| repeated requests to watch "Pi friends" we ended up getting him
| one of the plush Pi creatures which he still loves.
| smarm52 wrote:
| I'm suspicious this is an ad.
| refset wrote:
| Whatever the motivations (and FWIW it does seem like a
| channel very worthy of support), I can confirm it is at least
| the official 'Store' linked to from the official website:
| https://www.3blue1brown.com/
| gnicholas wrote:
| You're suspicious my comment is an ad, or the original post?
| I have zero affiliation with the channel, have never emailed
| with the creator or anyone on their team, and am not even
| subscribed to the youtube channel. I just saw a guy wearing
| one of the shirts at the Palo Alto farmer's market and was
| intrigued. My first reaction was "is that the guy who runs
| the channel?" and then I realized he probably had a shop and
| probably didn't go around wearing his own swag.
| smarm52 wrote:
| Apologies, still finding my footing here at HN. I have a
| lot "reddit reflexes" for lack of a better word, and this
| was probably a product of that.
| gnicholas wrote:
| You might check someone's account age or history first.
| Typically people won't accumulate many thousands of karma
| points if they are shilling for brands.
| one-punch wrote:
| Reminds me of the "Chase your reality" commencement speech by
| Christopher Nolan at Princeton in 2015.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoWEhQlS9yY
| fnordian_slip wrote:
| He already had me at his mention of survivorship bias (something
| that I feel is ignored a bit too often in this space), but the
| whole speech was great!
|
| I'm generally on the other end of the spectrum (playing it safe
| instead of following my dreams), but somehow this motivated me to
| go a bit further into trying something new.
| yuy910616 wrote:
| Refreshing take on "Follow your dreams"! It's quite surprising to
| me that this tired genre can still deliver something new.
| thomasahle wrote:
| The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for other
| people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is that most
| of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this.
|
| I'd probably agree that research math also doesn't come from a
| goal of "self growth", but maybe it should be something like
| "follow your curiosity".
| j2kun wrote:
| > for math graduates in particular
|
| I don't think it's ironic at all. The vast majority of math
| graduates don't do pure math research after graduation. And
| modern pure mathematicians dramatically undercut how much of
| their research was, in relatively recent history, driven mainly
| by practical value.
| aleph_minus_one wrote:
| > The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for
| other people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is
| that most of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this.
|
| I _do_ believe that the results of math research (even the pure
| one) create an _insane_ value for other people, but that we
| live in a world full of ignorant people who don 't see this
| insane value (yet). Thus, the modern math research may not be
| _motivated_ by this criterion, but in most cases nearly
| tautologically creates a lot of value for other people.
| mitthrowaway2 wrote:
| I agree. You can still make a great living just by sifting
| through the nuggets unearthed by people like Gauss, Euler,
| and Laplace, which continue to pay dividends centuries later,
| let alone inventing new math.
| j7ake wrote:
| "People" need to be better defined. In the case of pure math,
| "people" are your fellow mathematicians in your specific
| subfield or adjacent.
| sabrina_ramonov wrote:
| I find it more useful to "follow my curiosity" ... I feel the
| concept of "dreams" has too much weight and seriousness attached
| to it nowadays
| mihaic wrote:
| I find it very ironic that Americans seem to understand better as
| a culture that they need to diversity their investment portfolio,
| but at the same time seem to ignore that concept in their
| personal life more than almost any European.
|
| It seems like the concept that there probably shouldn't be any
| single goal or purpose in life that needs to be maxed, and that
| life is a basket is foreign to most.
| tennisflyi wrote:
| It's always had the subtext of "follow your (reasonable) dreams."
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