Definitely feels like u two have different process orientation... one is focused on best effort/results ratio, the other on maximizing results
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are either of us results-maxxing…? Maybe with the preemptive knowledge that outlier tier results come from the periphery? I’d think of myself as serendipity-maxxing
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Hmm you're right... results isn't the right word. It feels like, how to say... "effort required" is not a priority consideration in your process. If something looks promising then gotta do it. True that the goal is serendipity, but that's not the primary thing I'm noticing
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ah maybe it’s that i have delusional main character energy lol where Venkat wisely avoids that nonsense
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I think this is my relevant orientation here
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Actually wrong link. This is the one I was thinking of. I’m forgetting my own archives.
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I stopped blogging for almost a year now, because I can't compare with writing like this
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Today I’d tldr the post as: serendipity as a purpose is an oxymoron. It only exists as a side effect in peripheral vision and vanishes if you try to look at it head on. Callbacks are a kind of cash-out mechanism to acknowledge serendipity.
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Wait, I don't think they're a cash-out (at least I don't think I think that, maybe you'll convince me). I think they stabilize a valuation and allow you to pin new possibilities on the callback, to riff on the callback as it were, which circulates the project anew.
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Cash out of meaning. Like a little nibble of meaningfulness of life.
In the same sense of divination or generally outcomes of random things being in your favor being taken as a sign that the gods are on your side. Like solving wordle in 2 tries.
I see. Maybe there are 2 models:
1. Does life have meaning? Callbacks are results in little cosmic tests that confirm or deny the nature of existence.
2. What gives life meaning? Callbacks are discourse mechanisms, little stablecoins that license intertextuality to expand scope
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there is clearly a song hiding in this conversation called "Ain't no Callerback Girl"
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