# You don't need to work on hard problems

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Ben Kuhn]]
- Full Title: You don't need to work on hard problems
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/

## Highlights
- root goal was to use my skills to get the most possible leverage on improving the world.
- In school, if you pick an easy problem instead of a hard one, you lose leverage because your extra problem-solving ability goes to waste. But in real life, you can redirect it to prioritizing which problems to solve, or working more quickly, or building a machine that solves the problems for you.