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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

Note: The Last Lecture is a series of posts, one post every single day, where I give a hypothetical “final talk”, i.e., “what wisdom would I try to impart to the world if it was my last chance?”


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