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    1. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 3 Jul 2019
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      What are some lifestyle choices or decisions you’ve made that most people would consider “unconventional”? — taking a different path, coloring outside the lines, etc. If those choices are in hindsight, how do you think about them now?

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2019
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      I’ve been on the straight and narrow making no unconventional decisions. The damn world though has taken some unconventional turns under my feet, making me look all weird. The path of least resistance for individuals looks abnormal when normalcy itself is taking the costly route

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    3. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 3 Jul 2019
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      “making no unconventional decisions” go to sleep, venkat, you’re clearly drunk

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    4. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 3 Jul 2019
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      you’re one of the people i had in mind when asking this question!

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2019
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      Ok partly kidding, but it’s really being consistently path of least resistance. Sometimes it takes self-awareness to notice when conventional path is high-energy for somebody else’s benefit and do easier thing for your own. Being sufficiently low energy can look like strategy.

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    6. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 3 Jul 2019
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      This sounds right to me! And yeah, I wasn’t thinking about it, but “low vs. high resistance” is an interesting axis here. Seems like low-resistance unconventionality is driven by weirdness + self-awareness. Wonder what drives the high-resistance version... ambition?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2019
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      Narcissistic wounds I’d guess. Deep-seated ones. But even that’s really least resistance in disguise: looking inward and processing trauma is too hard intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. So you take easier path of busting through the world.

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        2. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 3 Jul 2019
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          Did you ever write about this? It pattern-matches to “dent in the universe” but I’m not sure I actually read that one (just familiar with the title)

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jul 2019
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          I think I had a version of the argument long ago in Be Slightly Evil as commentary on Boyd and also a version in Calculus of Grit. It’s gotten highly simplified since them to the self belief “my superpower is sheer laziness”

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        1. Beau Butler‏ @oddynz 4 Jul 2019
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          Oh yeah, half the people i know are highly effective operationally in the world because they're using the world to run from things in their own head. 50/50 whether they'll ever resolve their head demons but damn they get things done.

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