A good way to go wrong in a complex system is “focus on the basics” There are no basics. There’s only intertwingled, entangled weirdness. Of those who focus on basics, a few get lucky, succeed, get religion, and start sermonizing. You don’t hear sage advice from the failures.
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My “Against Waldenponding” model is a baseline attempt at an answer, or rather, a rejection of a class of answers, which include Basic Success Theories that are built on individual virtue as the foundation.https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/against-waldenponding …
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Becoming a billionaire and preaching your 7 Simple Rules of Success is basically the same impulse as an ordinary schmoe retreating to do “deep work”. Both are waldenponding. The on,y difference is how many times the Medium article is shared.
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There are no formulas. Take your shots. Enjoy your successes. Be kind to yourself and others for failed shots and failures to take shots. None of us really understands everything about what’s going on. Be humble about the correctness and significance of the bits you think you do.
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10 years ago, Basic Success Knights (BSKs) and their mooks were an annoying but ignorable sideshow. You could take a tip or two from them here and there,and get on with figuring out your own shit. Now, as mainstream normie-ness collapses, they are rushing into the vacuum.
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This might have been one of the best features of normie world pre-2016. The normie script was so obviously a banal, not-serious placeholder for "figure your own shit out or you get stuck with THIS" it wasn't an epistemic hazard. It just blocked the BSKs from narrative dominance.
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Now it's relentless BSK sermonizing all the time. Every damn day is Sunday, every medium is a church, and it's always 9 AM service, time to listen to the nearest person who has figured it out (and discovered that it's Really Simple, Just Do X)
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This is a question that should never be answered! It can only be lived! Before intelligence is awareness. Thinking must serve awareness. Remain curious and let the system show the next move. By its nature, thinking is limited.
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