Dear Smartphone,
We’ve had a great relationship over the years. You bring the world right to my fingertips. And you’re always there for me. Unfortunately, I’m a little too into you.
This is a beautiful letter from Richard Feynman to a former student on what constitutes “important problems”. I’ve always felt that important problems are those that advance your own knowledge, and ideally, the knowledge of others. But there’s an even simpler definition: any problem that brings joy in its solving is worth your time.
A man in Maryland got misidentified by twitter users as the perpetrator of a deplorable attack and he published an article about what the experience was like for him. The accusation was retreeted half a million times. This part jumped out at me:
I learned something important today. I had an idea to suggest to someone. But I wasn’t neutral about this idea.
Over twenty years ago, for the first time in history, the greatest living chess player lost to a computer.
The article linked below espouses a concept I’ve always found to be true but never fully appreciated as clearly as it is explained here.
In the mid-90s I got interested in the stock market and had a bit of money to invest so I opened an account with Charles Schwab.
