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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The world has way too much mutual-validation among people amounting to nothing in externalized value created. It’s like people endorsing each other for things on LinkedIn. Ground the valuation in something real or no cigar.
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Actually now you got me thinking about the point at which value is externalized. Are you thinking about it at the point of monetisation? (I’m visualizing, predictably, wannabe musicians building a scene and eventually getting paid)
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So are you then also saying that having helped others is a baseline for you now? Because the alternative seems like you’re discounting the very fabric of trust and support that allows each one of us to not drop out of the race, & we need everybody we can get. People = ends.
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If you’re a surgeon or a cook, people=ends is a good standard
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That’s interesting. People like patio11 have assisted others in scores by simply repeating “raise your prices” indefinitely. Your writing on the other hand helps the way a runaway horse does. “Does it?” “We’ll see.”pic.twitter.com/ruVBfHpKac
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I’ll accept that

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I respect the relentless empiricism and focus on results
most writers love the adulation regardless of real world effectThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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