I enjoyed Sabine Hossenfelder’s book Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions. It’s quite clear however that the author is out to pick fights, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she deliberately exaggerates her positions for effect.
While Seinfeld is only figuratively about nothing, Gefter’s subject is quite literal. Her book revolves around the attempt to grasp the bizarre state that existed prior to the Big Bang—though even the word ‘prior’ is misleading, as time itself hadn’t yet come into existence.
You can work your way into an existing team and be adopted as a full-status co-founder—if you’re prepared to pay with sweat, and lots of it. Or you can buy your way into a startup by putting hard cash on the table. Either option is a viable way to contribute value.
Trying to sell your “network and experience” without putting your money where your mouth is, though, won’t do. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
He is Poland’s most popular science fiction author. His work has been adapted for both film and a Netflix original series. He is the recipient of the European Union Prize for Literature and an inductee of the European Science Fiction Society’s Hall of Fame.
It’s true that Elon Musk was generally held in high regard for being one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our times, but that was before he went weirdly political. Because if there’s one thing that can probably be said about ‘us’, it’s that ‘we’ don’t like to be boxed in politically.
I’m thinking of the generation of sad Swedish novelists and how they seem to have gotten things backward. Perhaps, at the end of the day, they’re not very representative of how “Swedes feel”, just like there might be a pinch of self-delusion in how Norwegians think of their nation as the epitome of happiness.
Just five days ago, two papers were published in the same issue of Nature. Both point to a coming paradigm shift where photons – and phonons – eventually take over the role of electrons in both data storage and computing.
