Science

To those who sometimes feel bad by comparing themselves to "more accomplished" peers, the one-page CV on her website is clickable, it's actually six pages. Then realize your peers or you will never match Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, so be kind to yourself. You do matter too, firefly: https://ncase.me/fireflies/.

She's a one-in-a-century human such as Leonhard Euler: brilliant scientifically, ethically, and most importantly, still kind.

Quote from her talk Exploring Many Worlds at 35:31:

Q: “Graduate school is hard. I was once told by my dissertation advisor that it's not how smart you are, it's really how disciplined you are. And I was wondering if you could give us your reflections about persistence and tenacity in the context of advancing in your field.”

Sabrina: “I think the craziest thing is that you actually get advice like that. You get told things that no one should be telling you, that you're doomed or whatever. So if I wasn't happy doing this more mathematical research, that I should leave, and not that there's, maybe, ways to change it. So I think that persistence is a tricky thing because, again, it's like this cost-benefit analysis of where do you want your future to be, who do you have to deal with in the meantime to get there and whatnot. I think that maybe the sociology needs to change in that it shouldn't be like "this is the way things are", kind of that tough advice [tough love] type of thing. I don't like it because it sucks, it gets rid of diversity of thought.”

PS Sabrina didn't actually say "no" to Jeff "the unethical" Bezos, because she wanted to work for Blue Origin and held an internship there. Choosing theoretical physics instead doesn't mean she flipped him off—however nice that would've been indeed.