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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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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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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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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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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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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I get what you mean
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