Feynman_i_dont_like_honors_ [longer_version]

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dnautics · 2010-10 · Strong recommendation

This is a really great video to watch. It's worth watching once or twice a year to remind onself to be humble. And it's particularly apt this week! [VIDEO]

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namuol · 2024-11 · Reference

Should you care what another engineer’s title is? These kinds of discussions bother me because it always implies some kind of worthiness of the title. Maybe it’s just my work experience but I’ve found very little correlation with e.g. the success of an engineer’s career trajectory and the success of the projects they’re responsible for. Going a little more off topic now but these discussions always leave me feeling a bit like how Richard Feynman describes his instinct to be repulsed by “honors” and everything like them: [VIDEO]

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tauwauwau · 2021-11 · Reference

To me original motivation is solving a problem and innovation. If you come up with an idea to create a service/product, you may be invested in the innovation in the beginning. But, as soon as you start making it using other people's money, it starts being less about the product. [Edit] [VIDEO] Richard Feynman, explaining if "it" was worth the Nobel Prize. "...I already got the prize. Prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, kick in the discovery, the observation other people use it. Those are the real things..."

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