Been thinking again about Sam Altman’s comments on co-working spaces, at the tail end of his Conversations With Tyler podcast: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-a
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It’s an interesting combination of a few obvious ideas:
1. Most (smart) people are mimetic.
2. You are the average of the 5 closest people around you.
3. Great ideas are fragile.
4. So … great ideas get crushed when you put a sufficiently large group of smart people together.
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Ppl misuse the "avg of 5 ppl around you" thing a lot! Bad to be around 5 smart ppl. You want to be around a super smart person, a super kind person, a super extroverted person, etc
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