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Alex Zhang recognizes that an idea may seem interesting to him while actually being bad.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“guess maybe that one of the smaller differences in like i mean actually maybe you're doing research i'm not sure but for for me at least like i'll have maybe like 10 or 15 different ideas that i want to do but the thing is like most of them are bad and and this also maybe is true even for someone that reaches out to me like maybe the idea is actually”
“is actually bad but it looks interesting to me and so like we can spend like”Play from 1:36:06Report a misattribution
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