Richard Hamming
You and Your Research
In a talk at Bell Labs, Richard Hamming described his observations of what makes some researchers successful while others aren't.
Why we picked it
Distills Hamming's Bell Labs observations into a demanding question: why do some researchers produce consequential work while others do not?
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