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Einstein tried to patent relativity as a productivity hack. Which would’ve been the ultimate “I’m late, but it’s theoretical.”

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There is no record of Einstein trying to patent relativity as a productivity hack. He did work as a patent clerk in Bern, and published his theory of special relativity in 1905.

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