Shawn Ryan

And I don't think you're a better person or not for having less extrinsic motivation.

But it's hard to navigate.

If every person just cares about their own thing, and you're like, how do I do something this person cares about?

I want to jump into their thing.

But then they see it as a waste of their time to necessarily transfer that knowledge or something because they have their own grad students.

They have to do the research.

So it's hard to move around in a funny way just because everybody's doing their own little math.

But so I just wish that I could better parse other people's papers, understand like how their notation, their ideas fit into the things that I've already built in my mind.

And so like the type of thing that I'm excited about more so is just, you know, can I take Inspire up this database of all the different papers in the field and try to, you

like use large language models or whatnot, just for fun to see like how much I can try to parse like the different concepts that are appearing in these papers.

And I think it's a fun game to be like, okay, when I'm asked to explain something publicly, why am I so shit?

I think I've spent a lot of years instead of getting better at public speaking, thinking like, why the hell am I so bad at it?

And I think there's these trade-offs between, you know, we are selected for, or at least in our job, it's better if you are not sacrificing accuracy.

And so anytime you're making an analogy, there's so many caveats, the caveats get in the way of the intuition going through, and then sometimes you don't even think that way.

So it's just like, can I try to see the structure of the thing I'm studying a little bit better by playing around with it within the scope of things that I know?

So I'm super excited just for the fact that I can experiment with that all I want to, because before I might need to be better at coding in Python or understand the Inspire Hub API keys, and that's API calls.

And then that's like...

automatic now.

So you get to basically just have fun.

And I like that a lot.