James Mishra

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In truth, the Institute for Advanced Study proved unhealthy for Shannon. For some, it was a land of academic lotus-eating, an island where the absence of the ordinary worries of the job—students, deadlines, publication pressure—proved enervating rather than invigorating. The physicist Richard Feynman, who was working on his doctorate at Princeton while Shannon was at the IAS down the street, observed the inertia firsthand: “A kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. . . . You’re not in contact with the experimental guys. You don’t ...more
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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