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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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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The best way to be mediocre is to be ordained into the "elite" and then exit to a village by the sea before you forget what you're really doing. The median VC has more leverage than the median VC, but the miltiple is opposite and much larger for the mean.
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VC, founder, respectively. My brain gets short on RAM this time of night.
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Wasn’t the Buddha with his middle path all about this?
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Daodejing?
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Setting out to be mediocre by definition already makes you not-mediocre. (Not a success necessarily. Failure can come *because* you tried to keep your head down and not make waves.) Trying to be mediocre collapses the wave function?
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