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True of basically anything if you commit yourself to working that hard; people rarely really work much, at all, in this sense.

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Visa’s Vexing Vacillations

@visakanv

Jan 10, 2020

it's true that your startup insights will look stupid in 6 months that said, if you persist for 60 months (assuming you're intellectually honest + commit to refining your work) they'll start to look smart and in 300 months you'll be among the best in the world twitter.com/SuMastodon/sta…

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@Triquetrea

Jan 11, 2020

I feel like there's very little nuance between hustle porn, "if you're not willing to cut your hand off for material success, you don't deserve to live" and this sort of learned helplessness, BS narrative that because the deck is stacked, there's no point in trying anything.

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@Triquetrea

Jan 11, 2020

I like these claims like Visa's in the quoted tweet that carry this simple optimism. "If it's shit, work on it until it's no longer shit." Simple, true, and not overpromising anything much, really. Most of us aren't going to work that hard, whether through circumstance or merit.

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@Triquetrea

This last part gets overlooked or distorted so often it's a bit embarrassing, really. "Oh, just work steadily and honestly and good things will come to you? You make it sound waaaay easier than it is." No, working steadily and honestly is actually quite hard.

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@AdmiralOPG

Jan 11, 2020

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@Triquetrea

yeah, simple is not easy if it was easy, I would've gotten the hang of it after 20+ years

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Resilience is probably more important than anything. Working yourself half to death probably isn't a good way to build that, unless you're absolutely sure that your current project is going to pay off.