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Anytime you see an exec with a very quiet style you can be sure they’re running in this low-energy leveraged mode, just moving their klout around the room.
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All they need to do is use moments of 100+ IQ lucidity to ask the occassional perspicacious question and everybody will conclude they’re a mysterious genius. Straussian Great Man Oz effect.
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I’ve gone from amused/apathetic to deep work, to actively hostile to the idea. It’s a performative part of hustle theater. Nobody using the phrase “deep work” appears to have actually done work comparable to what they claim to aspire to.
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The stuff we’re supposed to think deep work is like — soaring leaps of Great Work production by Great Men, on the order of Einstein or Mozart — actually happens via very different patterns of genetics/context/resources/work patterns/play patterns/recovery patterns.
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Ditto Waldenponding. “Social media detox,” etc etc. Yeah, just the “good cop” side of performative hustle theater. Social media addiction isn’t the problem, your solution isn’t a solution. Just an aestheticized, intellectualized version of “a bad work an blames his tools”
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This sounds harsh, but a lot of bullshit analysis and theatrical intervention into misframed non-problems is just ordinary, mediocre people refusing to question the conceit that the only thing standing between them and Greatness is some environmental factor.
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I think there’s way more to it and all the “research” is just bolstering peripheral points in shaky ways while studiously ignoring glaring unstated assumptions baked into the idea. To be clear I think he sincerely believes that’s all there is to it. That’s part of the problem.