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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
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Mediocre Man theory
It’s just like Great Man theory but actually true
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The 1-sigma life
We are the 68%
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The Fundamental Dogma of Twitter: The middle 1-sigma is actually on Instagram, and my side is the topwit side of twitter
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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.
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The nice thing about this us you usually bound your downsides even if you miss most upsides
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Midwit goblin mode inaction figure
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Huge TAM, smart move.
Make sure you get the action figures concession.
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Hah we’ve found our entrance test!
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eats seed oils & processed food
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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…
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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.
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Economics is the perfect midwit discipline. It even has its own category of Nobel that’s not like the topwit Nobels.
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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.
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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
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Brainstorming mediocrity slogans
Don’t worry, be mediocre
Resistance is Mediocre!
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