I am guided by self-determination and I try to work on important, unlikely things.

Human focus is the most misallocated resource on Earth.

As machines get better at what is already known, human attention matters most at the edges, on the high-complexity, low-data problems where there is no precedent to learn from. I call this Politzki's Law.

So I try to spend my focus there: away from likely tasks, toward unlikely truth.

Irreverence as a Virtue

"Irreverence is a key to progress." — Joel Mokyr

True progress can only be achieved by navigating out of distribution, into uncharted territory.

Creative Destruction

Unlikely Truth

"Hat man sein wofür des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie."

Friedrich Nietzsche

— Twilight of the Idols

"Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

— Faust, Part II

"Nur wer sich wandelt, bleibt mit mir verwandt."

Friedrich Nietzsche

— Posthumous Fragments