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!https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1078054908119535616 …
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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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Reminds me of how aeronautical engineers were convinced that ugly planes didn't fly right. That slowed development of supersonic aircraft, which need to be a different shape.
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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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I'm probably responding to the class signifiers built into the framing of cigarettes and soda as "less advanced" than business success
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This is how I approach boring old professional work: knock a few areas out of the park, do the bare minimum to be competent in others. Works far better than people who try to be above-average everywhere, since the exceptional gets remembered.
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