The speaker advises people to reach out more and worry less about looking foolish, because productive work benefits from complementarities and participation in a community or organization.

“like there's like a lot more um edge there that you can get which is just being more aggressive and like less ashamed or something of like looking dumb like that's the main advice i would give because if you want to be productive then again like there are these complementarities and so on they're like different you know you need to be part of like some community or some organization and”