Ben Kuhn · benkuhn.net
In Defense of Doing Hard Things
A lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life—probably because that’s the only thing they’ve ever been rewarded for so far.
Why we picked it
It questions whether praise for technical difficulty has become a substitute for deciding which problems are actually worth a life.
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