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this tweet made me realize that i consider cigarettes and excessive soda drinking to be each, (all else held constant + without any additional information), fairly benign on the list of possible bad habits. and these are things that slowly kill you!
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I love when super successful people randomly have a terrible habit like smoking or drinking tons of soda. It reminds me you can experience tremendous advancement in one domain with little or no change in another
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something about the assumptions behind Tiago's take bugs me but I can't put my finger on it. maybe the underlying lionization of the "super successful". and yeah I agree with you, both cigarettes and soda are fairly benign in moderation.
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It’s the mediocrity-survival-infinite-game instinct beating out the excellence-aesthetics-finite-game instinct basically. Growing things look messy, unbalanced, awkward. Non-growing things achieve a harmonized aesthetic of “balanced” elements that don’t contradict each other.
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What I meant by assumptions was that something beyond the take itself feels off to me. Something about why the take is even "a take". Like, why is it surprising?
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