[HN Gopher] Sustain your creative drive in the face of technolog...
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       Sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change
        
       Author : adityaathalye
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2025-04-22 05:05 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | susam wrote:
       | > Whatever it is that you do, you have to really do it. If you
       | have a choice between doing it for three hours on Sunday or doing
       | it for 15 minutes a day for the rest of the week, do it 15
       | minutes a day, because what you do every day is what your brain
       | is working on when you're not paying attention. Your subconscious
       | is making progress on the things you do constantly.
       | 
       | This very much resonates with me. The difference between doing
       | something everyday vs cramming it into one big session (say, once
       | a week or once a month) is huge! In fact, the bigger the
       | challenge, the more pronounced the difference is.
       | 
       | For instance, I recently picked up a new hobby: reading full
       | undergraduate or graduate level mathematics textbooks, and
       | solving the exercise problems. A few years ago, I spent time with
       | analytic number theory [1]. Currently, I am learning Galois
       | theory. I have noticed that reading even as little as just one
       | page a day yields far more insight, intuition, and problem-
       | solving ability than trying to study 5-10 pages together during
       | the weekend.
       | 
       | Even if it is just a page (or just one theorem or just one
       | proof), the act of engaging daily keeps my mind working on the
       | material. I can almost feel the ideas maturing in the background.
       | Every morning, I wake up with a deeper understanding of the
       | material, not because I studied for hours, but because I took the
       | time to struggle with a few new concepts, no matter how briefly,
       | the night before.
       | 
       | Having done this for a few years, the process feels almost
       | mechanical. Just feed the brain with new concepts before the day
       | ends. Even if the ideas feel challenging or difficult to fully
       | grasp in the moment, I've learnt not to worry too much. Just feed
       | the new ideas to the brain anyway and go to sleep. The brain
       | digests complexity quietly, in the background, and returns the
       | next day with fresh insight and deeper intuition. It's a
       | remarkable machine we carry on our shoulders!
       | 
       | [1] https://susam.net/journey-to-prime-number-theorem.html
        
       | sandspar wrote:
       | Website is too pretty to be useful. On mobile, I counted 8 thumb
       | scrolls before I reached the top of the article. 8 thumb scrolls
       | past attractive but useless junk such as images of floating
       | letters, a long bio of the author etc.
        
       | imaginationra wrote:
       | "Jack Rusher is a multidisciplinary artist with a deep technical
       | background."
       | 
       | Where's this dude's "art" no links, nothing- too many words, no
       | substance- anyone can say they are an "artist" but you have to
       | show some proof or you're just a tech bro creative virtue
       | signaling.
        
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