So you might think, why bother solving this problem? Why not work on some big problem that we know is important? But I think that misses the point. What if the Goldbach Conjecture, turns out it is opening up a whole new part of the multiverse of mathematical ideas. We don’t really know 'cause we…
Amil Niazi in a sobering article about ambition, COVID, women, mothers, and late-stage capitalism.…
Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get u…