Don't Spend Your Life Building Rube Goldberg Machines
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AWM #61: On careers, solving the metaproblem, and fallow periods 🌷
Rube Goldberg’s inventions on a US postal stamp from 1995 “What do you want to be when you grow up?” You’re 10 years old, and your teacher or aunt or kind elderly neighbor looks at you expectantly. You struggle to find an answer. You know you could answer “doctor” or “astronaut,” but you’re a smart enough 10-year-old to know that these are stereotypes, that there are countless other jobs out there that you have no idea exist, or even jobs that don’t exist yet. How can you decide now what you’ll be when you grow up? “A botanist,” you randomly say. You like plants. That’ll do. “What do you…
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