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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 10 Jun 2019
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      I think a question I have for ultra-high-functioning people is - if you really search your heart, and you really corroborate it with everyone you’ve known - how different are you? How special? Unique? I mean like, *really*. It’s a heavy question. Why isn’t everyone on your level?

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Jun 2019
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      I think people heavily overestimate uniqueness and heavily underestimate plausible potential impact, not least because of how many of the default options will lead to severely compromising on impact.

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    3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 10 Jun 2019
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      So are you unique in your relatively-more-accurate estimations...?

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Jun 2019
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      I've spent non-trivial effort on being basically impossible to substitute for in the market, and I think I am basically impossible to substitute for in the market for a variety of jobs, but I think ~10% of my high school could have accomplished approximately what I have.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Jun 2019
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      Too few organizations are searching for the answer to "What's the best plausible, repeatable pathway you can have to maximizing the lifetime output of someone who is undifferentiated but bright given, say, 3 years to do nothing other than maximize for output."

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        2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 10 Jun 2019
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          Right!!! I feel that. That in some ways I have, through my exploring and experimentation, ended up with opportunities that seem tailored just for me. And probably 10% of people could do it(?) but it seems like only a handful do? Maybe I’m missing something?

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Jun 2019
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          Oh, this version of uniqueness I'll buy, for a non-trivial (but not as high as it should be) number of people. (Though, pace the general theme, I think a lot of folks who are 40% Visa-equivalent today could be 80% 12 weeks from now in at least a job-relevant way.)

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        1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 10 Jun 2019
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          And the organizations who have the easiest freaking layup towards being the answer to that have the gameplan: "OK, so we're going to prepare that person for an office job, badly. We won't help them find that job. Also, we think copious amounts of alcohol should be involved."

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