The older you are the less time you have The less time you have the smaller your largest future project The smaller your largest future project the less you must know The less you must know the fewer the details that can trip you up So you can pay less attention as you age!
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Writing is more precise but less leveraged than editing. As an editor you might help shape 10x as many words but with 1/10th the precision. Like John W. Campbell vs Asimov, Heinlein etc.
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Being a founder is more precise but less leveraged than being a VC Being a lawyer is more precise but less leveraged than being a judge. Leverage is people leverage here. Until computers get way smarter, machine leverage is less relevant to life ambitions
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I’m fascinated by the science of mediocrity and the art of being ordinary. It’s weird that by definition most people are ordinary and mediocre but there’s no books about how to do it well. Only books about how to be exceptional. Which by definition can’t work for most readers.
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Yet being ordinary and mediocre isn’t merely an automatic backup/safety option that kicks in magically when you fail at being exceptional. That’s actually “failure” a whole different class of scripts. Ordinariness must be chosen and pursued according to its own logic.
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You can be bad at ordinariness and mediocrity though. Especially if you confuse it for a Plan B in relation to a Plan A to be extraordinary. It’s like trying to run a car on rocket fuel. Bad idea. Can’t run ordinariness on will-to-power thymos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumos
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I’m not sure what the right fuel for ordinariness is. Probably something like absurdity.
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Everyone wants to be Holmes, but being Watson is not a failure to be Holmes. It’s its own, messier thing.
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Increasing crystallized intelligence pushes the other way, to some extent.
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I'm not sure an Indivisible Project that takes longer than 20 years is a thing—in 20 years, Bell went from founding to national network, Microsoft & Google became monopolies, SpaceX got rocket reuse working. And the *average American male* 50-year old still has 30 years.
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Ive accomplished more, faster between 65 and 70 than in the five years before.
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