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.
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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.
BTW, Dean Keith Simonton's "equal odds" rule is a marvellous refutation of the point of view I put forth above. Basically, he studied research production, and showed there are equal odds of a paper being a major breakthrough.
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The moral of his work is: write a lot of papers, no matter how many you write each one will have roughly equal odds of being a masterpiece so you should just increase production.
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It's discussed in a bunch of his papers, and in the first chapter or so of his book "Creativity in Science". Basically, it's something like a quantitative version of your initial tweet: ramp up your production as far as you can, bc your odds on every project are about the same.
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(Yeah, I'm now arguing with myself here. I've thought a lot - maybe too much! - about both sides of this.)
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Someone should see if the equal odds rule applies to tweets.
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