Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right?