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“If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.”
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“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
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“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”
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“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”
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“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
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Alexey’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexey’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
841 books
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269 friends
0 books
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138 friends
334 books
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152 friends
26 books
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80 friends
180 books
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54 friends
73 books
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44 friends
170 books
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18 friends
197 books
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432 friends
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