Jacob Shymanski
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3,186 appearances
30 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Jacob Shymanski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Maybe I should have led with this.
Oh, well.
Einstein said, and I had never heard this before, if I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask.
For once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
which is such a great variation on that whole sentiment that these people are trying to get across here.
And I think this absolutely ties into scientific skepticism, which we were discussing earlier.
In a sense, not caring about the answer, not having an emotional investment where the facts lead.
but asking the right questions will absolutely get you to your goal faster.
And the other connection this brings to mind is what we refer to as Google-fu.
When you're just trying to Google around, trying to get an answer to a question, sometimes you just need to Google first what the right question is before you're going to find what you're looking for.
So knowing the right question is often the most important part of that whole process.
Right.
Right.
And perhaps a corollary to that would be some of the best scientific discoveries are ones that not definitively answer something, but that raise their own whole set of questions after that.
Those are the kind of discoveries that scientists really love.
Of course, he's flattered by the...
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Teddy Roosevelt.
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See, the thing about this, this is something that his aide, I believe she's Special Assistant Margo Martin.
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She's also one of these girls who's always following him around.
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She chose to post this on Twitter.
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