And for most of my life, there was a clear trajectory upwards in success and status. But in 2019, I suddenly feel like I can only sustain this "ego growth" by quitting my job and plunging into speculative projects. The thought of just continuing my life as is fills me with dread.
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Now own it and join our religion of mediocrity 😎
Welcome to mediocritopia!
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I have a lot of work to do to get to mediocre
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lol i came here to see if vgr would try to recruit more mediocre people and i was not disappointed 😆
ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/24/sur
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I expanded my feelings from the initial thread into a blog post, including a long gaze at VGR's mediocrity.
putanumonit.com/2019/08/15/uns
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Welcome to the sorta club. At some point we might get around to organiz.... ooh look a squirrel
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Aside, birds are apparently a bad example because modern birds did not descend directly from flying dinosaurs but some other dinosaurs that evolviled wings again. Though it’s more like a do-over than truly distinct convergent evolution.
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A better example might be inner ear bones, which developed from over-thick jawbones with spare bone (whole new meaning to slack-jawed).
In a talk I did on fat thinking (my post on that is probably where I started down this road) I use that as the prime example.



