My notes on a conversation between Balaji Srinivasan and David Perell.

https://open.spotify.com/embed-podcast/episode/58vgN4eQx89T66roaFWBj1

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Balajis's (@Balajis) background: He's worked as the Chief Technology Officer at Coinbase and a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. In the world of academia, he holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering, all from Stanford University. He's also taught at Stanford, where his online course has reached 250,000 students worldwide.

David's (@David_Perell) background: David is known as “The Writing Guy” on Twitter. He has an online writing school called Write of Passage, writes two weekly newsletters – Monday Musings and Friday Finds. He also hosts the North Star Podcast.

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2:38 Studying and learning

At first, Balaji thought he was going to be a professor at Stanford or MIT.

His experience in academia taught him to lean quickly.

How to learn quickly?

• Balaji starts with doing problems, without reading the textbooks.
• Running into to a roadblock makes you realize what you don't know.

What are the similarities and differences between technical learning and liberal arts learning?

Balaji got interested in liberal arts to win arguments.