Contraptions

Contraptions

Late-Style Thinking

Learning to feel at home in an older mind

Venkatesh Rao
Apr 21, 2021
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A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting around watching TV and idly scribbling notes in my notebook on the state of my various projects, when it hit me that I’m doing proper project-scale research thinking again for the first time in 15 years. Some of it has been showing up on this newsletter, some of it has been showing up elsewhere.

Research thinking is a…

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