The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

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?

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.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

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