I've been enjoying reading @rabois's debate with others over past day or two on the importance of hard work.
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No snark meant -- it's an important question for all of us, and he's giving voice to a harder-to-argue perspective.
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Feels to me disagreement is over two separate things: what it is that people *should* be optimizing for (quality of life vs tail outcomes)…
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and, separately, to what degree intensity of application *causes* the latter.
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It does feel like a lot of questions in these debates come down in large part to optimizing for the median vs optimizing for tail outcomes.
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One of my working perspectives is that Silicon Valley is substantially an engine for generating positive tail outcomes.
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And one reliable way to do that is to just broadly increase variance, potentially even at the cost of the mean or median.
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This is complicated within a company by performance being an ensemble across all of the employees, and of their performance being correlated
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So on the one hand maybe the high-variance just gets averaged out. On the other, the tails (both of them) amplify by influencing others.
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My intuition is the most important thing is to protect against the left tail (burnout); unlike equity investments, that damage isn't capped
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