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To be clear—anytime I reinvent something, they reinvented it first, from truth, I just happened to do it later. https://t.co/ODUzjasw6f

I think this is what Tim Urban calls the Cook and the Chef. (but i wouldn’t know, i never read the full post) https://t.co/kIN2qfqzCW

(my concepts, not Tim Urban’s) The cook can Learn and Do. This is good actually, because it makes Food, which we Need. When we are always chefs and never cooks, the world dies. Please don’t always be a Chef. It’s Dumb. I tried it. https://t.co/6Yh26rlqqQ

It came from a background in computer science and math, where if you knew the answer . . . it happened immediately. And forever. It was land of no Doing. Things just existed abstractly, across time, at once. There was no time there. https://t.co/XFDzFx3DqT

The way to be a Chef is when you read something, get in touch with the *felt sense* in the author’s mind, the one that would have generated such a thought. The words are irrelevant here. You want to feel what they felt. Finding the generator.

I have met too many Silicon Valley nerds who figured this much out, and wanted to “chase the generators” and the “generators of the generators” and never figured Living out. Please also Cook. It is good and Sexy to Cook for yourself. Romanticise drudgery. https://t.co/dUjoxhTOyX