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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

      there's a weird disgust twinge whenever i see a "connector" type that is more successful than the "source" that inspired the bulk of the connector's content even though the value prop of pre-digesting sth indigestible IS a valuable and needed service

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

      this is especially true if the Source is still alive and just continuously delving into more and more esoteric things with no secular concern but even if the source is dead (carnegie, jung, watts, durant, etc...) it still feels "weird"

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

      2 possible reasons one is that the act of pre-digesting is also an act of interpretation which necessarily adds bias. the disgust twinge for e.g. is heightened when the connector is wrapping up the content under a Brand & heavily marketed via a Mission

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

          just like an overly complex javascript framework *cough* angularjsrxjs *cough* that tries to "wash" away the original idea via layers and layers of "ME ME ME ME ME this is the RIGHT way to view the world" everything ends up tainted by the interpreter's pov

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

          another is that connector types tend to increase the size of groups as well as embed themselves into the centers of these groups e.g. there is an incentive for group think and also an urge to serve as the "center" of the group

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

          all these attributes: self-righteous interpretation, egoic layering, group think, hypocritical tyranny, etc.. are all dog virtues...

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

          now... all thought is derivative so one can make a claim that there isn't any such thing as a "true" source however in practice there is a visceral AHA feeling when someone seems to have RECREATED Source (and thus becomes a new Source) vs someone who is just marketing

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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

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          there's a parallel to math as well. when you "get" something it's because you've used someone else's map to walk the same path yourself. you haven't taken a helicopter up just for the photo ophttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1393072216904925188 …

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          you know how in math how you HAVE to think through yourself w/ no shortcuts something to *really* understand it? clinging to the final output so that it can be regurgitated misses the entire point
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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

          take farnam street or tim ferris and their legion of derived wannabes they all revolve around SHORTCUTS. they're very useful information sources but the cost is the elevation of shortcuts and hacks as highest virtue. the journey no longer matters, only the goal.

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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

          it's not that derivatives are bad... but when all the activity and energy is focused around derivatives of derivatives of derivatives of derivatives then the signal to noise ratio is depressingly low

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        9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 17

          the information environment becomes mostly cacophonous echoes of echoes like that one time someone said "Stoicism?" and everybody was like "yeah, STOICISM!!" for like a whole damn year

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