Explore-exploit tradeoff: the longer you explore ideas in life, the more writing bad/mediocre science fiction will become the only way you can exploit what you’ve learned through exploring. So cut back on exploring and start exploiting early.
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Politics is the last refuge of the scoundrel — Samuel Johnson
Writing mediocre science fiction is the last refuge of the lazy scoundrel — me, a hard-working non-scoundrel
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Can you say more? Are you saying: the more space u explore, the harder it is to connect the dots? Or the more time u explore ideas, the further to the fringes u go and it makes little sense there?
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