guzey

Hi! I'm the author of this post. I'm 22. I wrote most of this post when I was 20. I still agree with basically all of it. Also, I spent like 6 months writing it because most of the productivity advice is bs and wears off quickly and I wanted to make sure I only include things that stick.

Thank you for this. I completely agree with you. Unfortunately my essay had a different focus but maybe I should try to interview people just on their personal feelings and see how that -- less cerebral -- perspective would be different...

As I wrote in https://guzey.com/patronage-and-research-labs/ - my hope is that philanthropists and foundations will be deciding to experiment more and to allow scientists to pursue research differently...

Wouldn't want to point to specific areas - rather I think that we need to find brilliant people and back whatever they're working on.

There's plenty of space of new scientific discoveries in biology! Wikipedia for example has a good list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_b...

Author here - this essay is the result of a year (and 100+ interviews) of my figuring out how life sciences work. (there are also discussions of it on reddit [1] and on twitter [2])

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/cqxcey/how_... (16 comments)

[2] https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1162017187919478784 (28 responses)