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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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
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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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.”
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I respect the relentless empiricism and focus on results🖖 most writers love the adulation regardless of real world effect



