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    1. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 27 Dec 2018
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      visa is working on his ebook Retweeted Tiago Forte

      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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      Tiago Forte @fortelabs
      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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    2. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 27 Dec 2018
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Dec 2018
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      There’s a startup investing rule of thumb that says it’s better to knock one thing out of the park and screw up/phone-in most other things than to get most things to “very good”. Tiago is right, but you’re also right that it’s very counterintuitive.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @vgr @simpolism @visakanv

      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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    5.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 27 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @vgr @simpolism @visakanv

      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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Dec 2018
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      They weren't entirely wrong though... Boyd famously compared F-104 starfighter to a schoolbus ("how do you improve it? cut off its wings and paint it yellow"). It was stub-winged supersonic, ugly AF and poor performer. There's an ugly duckling effect here

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Dec 2018
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      By contrast mature supersonic aircraft have been beautiful. Just with a different mature supersonic aesthetic. Similar evolution in stealth. Early stealth = ugly. 3rd gen stealth = lovely.

      11:46 AM - 27 Dec 2018
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        2. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 27 Dec 2018
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          I’ve always thought that black triangle plane was aesthetic afpic.twitter.com/pUDHM4urxQ

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Dec 2018
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          Goes back to Northrop flying wing designs from like 30y earlier. From an aero-aesthetics perspective, the lack of a tail fin makes it kinda ugly... I think "aerodynamics literacy" makes you see structural aesthetics differently because you can sense in what ways it will fly badly

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