What would be a good way to gatekeep a midwits-only space?
I think a slightly skilled form-filling type activity. Like wordle but more time consuming and more boring.
Yep 😎
Mediocre life strategy
Middling ambition
Middle class life aspirations
Midwit intellectual aspirations
Middle path Buddhism
Grande coffee at Starbucks
Mid-grade gasoline at the pump
The midwit meme correctly tags analysis paralysis as the signature midwit. The bottomwit sees no options. The topwit sees the options and chooses easily. The midwit sees the option and struggles to choose, often defaulting to the default or making awkward compromises.
What strikes tail-wits* as low agency is actually low standards. We find it hard to make decisions because we are mostly indifferent to the options and sometimes overcompensate by overanalyzing them.
* Top and bottom, ie >1 sigma tails of distribution twitter.com/vgr/status/152…
You know why tailwit converts to centrism get frustrated? They can’t lower standards to let go the need for agency. So they can’t internalize the fundamental function of centrism: creative inertia.
Embracing and evangelizing mediocrity is the thing I’ve gotten the most shit for in my life. Which is why I’m doubling down and expanding to claim midwittery.
For those new to my occassional spasms of mediocrity evangelism (now with midwittery!), bumping an old prompt that generated many moderately inspiring slogans for mediocrity