Scientific Qualifications: What Aravind Srinivas feels Science demands from (Good) Scientists

The only thing that’s required to be a good scientist is intellectual humility, to understand that you could be wrong about things, things that everyone takes for granted — you could still question them, and when you’re presented with new evidence and new data you are willing to change your mind, and you are willing to operate with ambiguity and uncertainty about the world, … that’s basically all the qualities you need to be a scientist.

Aravind Srinivas, Joe Rogan Experience #2521 [1:23:45 – 1:24:10]

If you don’t get any attention, you won’t be in business

Attention equals money — that this is a literal attention economy. People — it would be silly to think that these things don’t matter, because — if it is your industry — obviously if you don’t get any attention, you won’t be in business.

Attention equals money — this is a literal attention economy – Teaser News [ https://teaser.news.blog/2026/05/17/attention-equals-money-this-is-a-literal-attention-economy ]

All of Your Advice is Kind of Outdated for the Problems that I’m Going Through

[… but] there’s all of this context to explain it — and so hopefully it’s a book that gives some compassion to that [viewspective?]

“What the Internet Did to Girls – Freya India” (“Walk-Ins Welcome #388“) [ https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-388 ], ca. 2:12 – 2:48

See also my current ongoing series (roughly about the “business plan” of “social media”):