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The more incompressible you are, the more your reach will be indirect, via the few people who put in the work to read it One reason it’s possible for even no-reach beginners to feel genuine pity for Tom Friedman is that The World is Flat is pretty well summarized by its title
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At the other extreme, James Carse Finite and Infinite Games is almost incompressible *despite* being highly redundant and repetitive
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But the people who *have* put in the work to read Carse have all been way more deeply influenced by it. I’ve read both. I never cite World is Flat except as a joke. I cite or use Carse almost every other thing I write. Often in a foundational way.
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Editor hat on, that’s often a sign that you’re absorbing the dialogue but struggling to find a “seed” with which to achieve an originality-adding compression as output. Often that takes learning disrespect. Most common problem I see in academically trained bloggers.
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Took me ~3-4 years/200k words to learn to sufficiently disrespect the dialogues I was responding to without actually tuning it out. Fine line between arrogant ignorance of, and obsequiously worshipful immersion in, a discourse tradition
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