This week's post, an emotional one to write

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Don't be in a rush to know what you're going to be when you grow up; focus on the growing up. @davidepstein.bsky.social

Be Alice, not Caesar — who cried about being behind the pace of Alexander the Great before taking over the Roman Republic, turning it into a dictatorship, and getting murdered by his own friends.

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At a banquet,Bernhard Rust,Nazi Minister for Science,asked Hilbert if the math dept. had really suffered any ill effects from the departure of Jews and their sympathetic colleagues. “No, it hasn’t suffered,”Hilbert replied.“It simply doesn’t exist anymore.”

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"What Emily is doing is helping me avoid what psychologists know as 'the illusion of explanatory depth' — a cognitive bias that describes our tendency to believe we understand something better than we really do because we gloss over the details."

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My Q&A with Derek Thompson, co-author of Abundance

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Overcoming an elite athlete’s ability to excessively focus on training to the exclusion of everything else. Stepping away: an overlooked advantage of high performers [. @davidepstein.bsky.social ] davidepstein.substack.com/p/why-hobbie...

Happy Book Day to Alex Hutchinson. Launch day for the Explorer's Gene. Get a taste of it in this fun Q&A with @davidepstein.bsky.social davidepstein.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...

How to make resolutions that might actually stick.

The wonderful @davidepstein.bsky.social asked for my advice, but as usual I suspect I learned more from him than the other way around: davidepstein.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...

"From now on, I plan to take a news vacation every year." This post by @davidepstein.bsky.social spoke to me, especially right now, when I am burned out by current events: davidepstein.substack.com/p/why-you-ne...

"For two months I did not read anything else, neither newspapers nor magazines, and I felt so good..." -Leo Tolstoy, in this week's post

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#read #nonfiction #books

This is a great book, one of my favourites, and a handy reassurance to those of us who still don't know what to become in life. Read broadly, my friends! Thank You David. @davidepstein.bsky.social

"Pretty quickly it became obvious that a project like what 23andMe tried would not be revolutionary, and might be completely useless."

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