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Communicating a general abstraction is difficult when listeners focus on specific details.
swyx · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“a category theory type of abstraction where you're thinking categories and then you have to like then translate down to the specific and but then you like actually really care more about the category and like that that's the communication error because like everyone's listening for the specific but actually trying to also you know convey the general which is hard”Play from 1:27:12Report a misattribution
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