If you come across a headline like ”A 16-year-old Indian girl launched an AI company in 2022, it is now valued at Rs 100 crore” today, wouldn’t you be surprised? How inspiring! India is growing, the kids here are extremely talented. Or is it 🤨?
I recently watched Grant Sanderson’s (the man behind 3blue1brown) lecture on Math’s pedagogical curse at JNM 2023, and I think that it is a very interesting topic which I would like to loosely extend to programming and computer science in general. He talks about how rigor is a gift to mathematics but it simultaneously decreases the pedagogical clarity if given too much focus on. This, he says is the math’s “pedagogical curse”.
So today I had an existential crisis due to a single thought. You probably think you have infinite creativity like me. Everyone thinks their thoughts are not bound, right? Well, I just hit the boundary today. You are not creative. Or at least creativity is not what you think it is.