Ah crap, "mediocrity is good" IS my Thielean secret. I'm a goddamn cliche.
One reason I've stayed on it is that it really is a legitimately divisive idea. I'd have stopped beating this drum a year ago if people hadn't pushed back.
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You know you're onto something good when a term is a reliable trigger but people can't immediately articulate their objections, fail to supply a better label for the thing you're arguing, but kinda keep suggesting you use a different term for better "marketability"
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Can "mediocrity is good" be translated into "trust the process, including the mediocre stage"?
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No it's not a process thing, though it has process implications
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I think you’ve found a significant Antinomy that you’ve codified within mediocrity equipoised by profundity. It seems like a near neutral middle ground that can go positive or negative with ease? Obtainable. Marketability be damned! Self-aware-cliches might be a meta category?


