Is it possible to be a good blogger if you don't have some kind of a chip on your shoulder?
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Entrepreneurship/polemic/journalism is roughly the exact combo I'm going for. Good disentanglement.
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Except in the rare cases of actual Count of Monte Cristo style actual revenge against people who provoked the resentment/spite, the emotion is generally an instant-gratification one, like scratching an itch, not an anticipation-based one in striatum circuitry
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Taleb's spite is adaptive and he explains exactly why in this post. I'm convinced it's largely posturing and inauthentic but is a kind of shield for social media presence benefits. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 …
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FWIW, I read 10 minutes of Black Swan and it was so bitter and I-told-you-so-ish I put Taleb down forever.
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Hmm. Still feel we're speaking past each other. Talking about inner drive, not surface-level bitterness.
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