Many young people trapped in the "intellectual black hole". A person that's very good at consuming impressive amounts of information. But doesn't produce much. The best people output often more than they input, IMHO. In a kind of uncontrollable way.
Good description of such unproductive dullards as Machiavelli (~10 years of study before writing a book, IIRC). There's a type of person who simply takes a long time ingesting information & then produces a masterpiece so strong it's _part of the language_ nearly a millenium later
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Agreed! Some chefs slow-cook for decades before pulling a masterpiece out of the oven. Am worried that on average, a new gravity is pulling people towards useless cleverness optimization. Where you get good at impressing with ideas you read in Ray Dalio's book. Instead of doing.
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Ah, right, I know what you mean. Machiavelli was actually doing something up there in his study, not simply seeming shiny to people he wanted to impress.
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I don't entirely disagree with your core claim. But it's really easy to think of lots of counterexamples. And many people who produce in a way that's superficially impressive are producing little of durable value.
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Another example is Ted Chiang, who often takes years to write a short story, producing very dense and beautiful pieces.
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If you write plenty of papers spending the same amount of effort in each one of course each paper has the same probability of becoming a master-piece but if you take long time during research you have a bigger chance of producing a higher quality job
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curious where you think this intersects with the subconscious and epiphany? I agree slow-cooking is key, but do you know of literature that backs up this claim? genuinely want to dive deep here for something I'm building.
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