Everyone's the first-something-to-do-something. The first lefty Californian to summit K2. The first person with astigmatism to win a Super Bowl. Victor Glover will be one of only 28 humans ever to journey to the moon. Maybe that’s enough.
[the banality of identity “journalism”]
Biotech is risky and expensive.
If it were only risky, hot-blooded entrepreneurs would throw themselves in the fray, falling in droves until one manages to actually make the world a better place.
If it were only expensive, silver-haired financiers would gather round long tables to concoct contracts to fund grand monuments of medicine.
Being both, it remains a realm populated by idealists and other irrational men and women. People who show up because the puzzle needs to be solved, and because disease should not be.
People that you will not see on the cover of a maganize, but who are the reason that when you go to the doctor, there is anything at all he or she can do for you.
Magnus Carlsen: "Progressing in the World Cup is one thing... but honestly since day one I was wondering what am I doing here, why am I spending all this time playing classical chess which I just find stressful and boring. But it's also not a good state of mind. First of all, you should try to do well. But these were my thoughts. If I'd lose, that's gonna be another humiliation in the World Cup."
@SokeyeA Only one way to find out, tried working on this a while back. There’s already existing contactless infrastructure in Nigeria, went around my city and found that lots of pos terminals and atm machines were nfc enabled but the functionality was left unused.There’s surely potential
"I'm 10 years ahead mentally, and I am trapped in today's time and every now and then I'll crack you a smile for 2013, but I'm cracking you a frown for 2023."
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"At some point, He was playing lot faster than I was and he was playing much better, seeing all kind of tactics. That was a massive reality check for me. At that point I was thinking, Ohh Okay, he is just that much better than I am. I was like yeah, this guy is a BEAST" (3/5)
Hikaru Nakamura beats Magnus Carlsen in the Finals of 2023 Bullet Chess Championship (1 minute chess)
After the match, 5 time World Champion Magnus Carlsen praise Hikaru Nakamura:
"This guy is just a BEAST"
More quotes from Magnus in the thread below
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