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Sid Ratnam's avatar

Great read. Many thanks!

The shower thoughts engineer note and how it was connected to missionary cultures, reminded me of an essay that I had saved on 'striving for greatness':

Hamming writes, "Deep emotional commitment seems to be necessary for success. The emotional commitment keeps you thinking about the problem morning, noon and night, and that tends to beat out mere ability."

(Link: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dahlin/bookshelf/hamming.html)

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Vaishnavi Deepak's avatar

Lovely read.. Would enjoy some newsletter recommendations as well.

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