Tackle the Monkey First There is this article titled Tackle the monkey first written by Astro Teller, who leads Google's moonshot lab "X." The article begins "Let’s say you’re trying to teach a monkey how to recite Shakespeare while on a pedestal. How should you allocate your time and money between training the monkey and building the pedestal?" Monkey reciting Shakespeare on a pedestal The moral
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