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9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
“Not as much in my experience, not as much. You don’t have to think ahead as much in painting.”
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- Paul Graham
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- belief
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- 9 Aug 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Painting — yes, or no? Not as much in my experience, not as much. You don’t have to think ahead as much in painting. It’s annoying to be interrupted, no matter what, but it doesn’t absolutely destroy you, like it does in the middle of writing a program or something. You don’t build a big mental model of something in your head when you’re painting. That’s what it is. It’s when you’ve got this giant house of cards in your head. That’s when you get destroyed by an interruption. Do you think kids today spend too much or too little time learning high-cost interruption activities?…
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