What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
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What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
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#2I happened to see someone wearing a 3Blue1Brown t-shirt today and decided to buy one myself to (modestly) support the channel. In addition to shirts, there are also socks and stuffed animals, apparently: https://store.dftba.com/collections/3blue1brown
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#3Reminds me of the “Chase your reality” commencement speech by Christopher Nolan at Princeton in 2015.
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#4He already had me at his mention of survivorship bias (something that I feel is ignored a bit too often in this space), but the whole speech was great!
I'm generally on the other end of the spectrum (playing it safe instead of following my dreams), but somehow this motivated me to go a bit further into trying something new.
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#5I happened to see someone wearing a 3Blue1Brown t-shirt today and decided to buy one myself to (modestly) support the channel. In addition to shirts, there are also socks and stuffed animals, apparently: https://store.dftba.com/collections/3blue1brown
My son is 4 and saw me watching one of his videos with the colorful Pi characters and was intrigued. After multiple repeated requests to watch "Pi friends" we ended up getting him one of the plush Pi creatures which he still loves.
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#6I happened to see someone wearing a 3Blue1Brown t-shirt today and decided to buy one myself to (modestly) support the channel. In addition to shirts, there are also socks and stuffed animals, apparently: https://store.dftba.com/collections/3blue1brown
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#7I happened to see someone wearing a 3Blue1Brown t-shirt today and decided to buy one myself to (modestly) support the channel. In addition to shirts, there are also socks and stuffed animals, apparently: https://store.dftba.com/collections/3blue1brown
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Whatever the motivations (and FWIW it does seem like a channel very worthy of support), I can confirm it is at least the official 'Store' linked to from the official website: https://www.3blue1brown.com/
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#8Refreshing take on "Follow your dreams"! It's quite surprising to me that this tired genre can still deliver something new.
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#9I happened to see someone wearing a 3Blue1Brown t-shirt today and decided to buy one myself to (modestly) support the channel. In addition to shirts, there are also socks and stuffed animals, apparently: https://store.dftba.com/collections/3blue1brown
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You're suspicious my comment is an ad, or the original post? I have zero affiliation with the channel, have never emailed with the creator or anyone on their team, and am not even subscribed to the youtube channel. I just saw a guy wearing one of the shirts at the Palo Alto farmer's market and was intrigued. My first reaction was "is that the guy who runs the channel?" and then I realized he probably had a shop and probably didn't go around wearing his own swag.
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#10The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for other people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is that most of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this.
I'd probably agree that research math also doesn't come from a goal of "self growth", but maybe it should be something like "follow your curiosity".