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>Unrealistic hypotheticals can often distract us from engaging with the real-world moral and political challenges we face.

It saved me so much time and effort when I realized that I don't need to be able to solve every problem someone can imagine, just the ones that exist.



Haven't been to big tech interviews?


Getting through a tech interview seems like a concrete problem.


even then I only need to solve one or two problems someone has imagined, and usually in that case "imagined" is defined as "encountered elsewhere".




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