Independent thinking and “staring into the abyss”
A post recommends Ben Kuhn’s essay on learning to think independently, saying he wrote it just before joining Anthropic.
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A user recommends Ben Kuhn’s “Staring into the abyss as a core life skill” as a piece about learning to think independently. The essay’s description highlights thinking about scary things, finding a buddy and getting the timing right, with examples from Wave and elsewhere and a list of “abyss questions.”
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Independent thinking and “staring into the abyss”
A post recommends Ben Kuhn’s essay on learning to think independently, saying he wrote it just before joining Anthropic.
TLDR
A user recommends Ben Kuhn’s “Staring into the abyss as a core life skill” as a piece about learning to think independently. The essay’s description highlights thinking about scary things, finding a buddy and getting the timing right, with examples from Wave and elsewhere and a list of “abyss questions.”