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One reason I’m increasingly interested in mediocrity as an ethos is that I sense this creeping, paralyzing perfectionism starting to infuse stuff I do. Mediocrity is movement. It is staying in the high reps/volume middle zone rather than wandering into 1RM zone.
Habit formation, discipline, high standards, work ethic. These are astoundingly overrated now and have really low correlation with doing meaningful things. In fact they actively divert scarce mental resources away from meaningful impact
Is this because such driven types don’t think hard about what they’re working on? Or because the drive toward efficiency squeezes all play and creativity out of the system? The slothful Bohemian in me wants to endorse this but I don’t really trust that bum.
The marginal benefit of allocating scarce mental energy to improving those things is low. If you're born naturally hard-working, great! But if you're not, forcing yourself to work hard is like waking up at 4am every day. Counterproductive. Better to think about what you should do
Have a pet theory: what you’re detecting is that living in extremistan, ie power laws, is a search problem. You need to find something where your particular mediocre effort gets great results. Dogged effort for someone else’s goals is a sucker’s bet. 1/2
Dogged planning and clear goals and determination serves whoever you are working for: your boss in a large firm, your investors at a tech co. Searching around until you find what sticks with you serves *you*. And in the long run, society.
A fair alignment in outcomes via equity, profit sharing, etc can help mitigate, but those aren’t always in effect or shared in fair markets.
1/ I was shocked when I met people at Stanford who would say "I'm going to learn how to program over the next 6 months", plan it out upfront, then actually follow that plan! Upfront planning when you know the least about what you want to learn and how to learn it. Blows my mind.
2/ If you're learning something new, you're better off being pretty lazy about it. For programming: Find and learn from new resources regularly. Try to build little things. Shamelessly give up on both in the middle and do something else if it feels right. Don't plan too much
I disagree on the Habit formation. Habits reduce use of mental resources, if you're constantly making decisions about re-occurring problems you are actively being diverted
you won't set good 1rms without those
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