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Work on boring yet important problems, to maximize your impact.

Super smart people will work on interesting problems. They don't care if something important or not and as a consequence don't make much money.

Smart people work on interesting and important problems.

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Boring vs. interesting seems subjective, therefore not a useful classifier since what you pick as boring somebody (perhaps much smarter) will pick as interesting.

"Important" seems impossible to determine except in hindsight.

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