Re:Fashionable Problems
by mark_l_watson on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:43PM
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Cal Newport makes the good point that people learn to like/love things after they get very good at it, whatever “it” is.
I love Joseph Campbell but his advice to his students to “follow their bliss” may not always be optimal.
I read the AI book “Mind Inside Matter” in the late 1970s, and even though I have done a ton of non-AI architecture and software development, I have also been able to work on AI problems like knowledge representation, expert system, NLP, neural networks, and deep learning starting in 1982. I definitely followed my bliss, but I have never been world class in my profession, but I have enjoyed myself.
I love Joseph Campbell but his advice to his students to “follow their bliss” may not always be optimal.
I read the AI book “Mind Inside Matter” in the late 1970s, and even though I have done a ton of non-AI architecture and software development, I have also been able to work on AI problems like knowledge representation, expert system, NLP, neural networks, and deep learning starting in 1982. I definitely followed my bliss, but I have never been world class in my profession, but I have enjoyed myself.