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Jiang says marriage and family let him see success as illusion; letting go of success made him more creative and moved him into great-books teaching.
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Success Illusion
Jiang says marriage and family let him see success as illusion; letting go of success made him more creative and moved him into great-books teaching.
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"Yeah, so I met my wife 10 years ago. And at first I didn't want to start a relationship because I had hit rock..."
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"That this was not real. That she'll eventually wake up and say, Oh my God, why am I dating an unemployed middle -aged man..."
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"Now it's like I don't need to succeed. Now I just need to take care of my family. Now I just need to be..."
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"Homer, Dante, Plato, Immanuel Kant. And I had very little exposure to a lot of these books. And so I set myself on learning..."
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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