One of the crueler jokes the universe plays on you is when you start hitting your own limits and learning of the ways in which you suck, you think, “maybe it’s time to help the next generation” and then you realize that’s a much harder problem and you suck even worse at that
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Perceptions of being helped don’t actually count. Only actual assists in scores 🙂
When someone tells me something I wrote helped them, I think silently, “call me when you have something to show for it besides good feels”
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Jury is out until you do some universe denting. Me helping you amounts to nothing unless you do.
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It seems unfair to yourself to discount the medium sized improvements you've made to a great many people's lives, when whether any one of these people produces world changing output is pretty random. Maybe they will, maybe not; you've decades to find out.
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The value of diagonalism is captured by teams, you’d need to join some to realize direct value creation.
You’re not making a dent, you’re making thousands of dimples.
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Consulting for example, which seems unimpactful but only because people like you rarely do it
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"Guys. Maybe read the stoics? Um... Yeah. If you like that sort of thing, read Plato?"
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