“Competence porn” is a phrase that I heard once and can’t remember the source or unhear. It’s like “Ahh, the satisfaction of watching a master at work is a thing. Let’s turn that to eleven.”
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Hey, that was my show!
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Which one? I’d be happy to watch it.
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The Martian

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Troy Rising series. Humans defeat higher tech aliens because we're better at engineering, writing science fiction and writing Standard Operating Procedures. https://amzn.to/2JNkisH
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supreme skills is kind of like that. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/supremeskills/ …
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This entered common parlance in my world with The Martian and I’m OK with Matt Damon as the good guy.
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This is why I loved Dirty Jobs. It wasn’t the gross-out factor (though that was fun at times), it was the sheer competence on display almost every episode. And
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This is a pretty good description of Tom Clancy novels.
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Scotty and Bones from ST:broadcast-in-the-60s-we-don't-need-no-steenking-subtitles; Bonnie, Chrisjen and several others from The Expanse (books & TV)
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