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I think university severely accelerated my midwit trajectory.

I achieved things in the peak of measurable stupidity during my late teens, early twenties going on gut and feeling and learning through experience.

My mid twenties on was the age of doubt and unknown unknowns. I went to school (late) and learned how much I don’t know, forgetting and discounting what I do know or that things with enough constraints are, in fact, knowable.

So now in my late 30’s I’m circling back. Maybe I know some things. Maybe I can just things. Maybe the things I don’t know are better attained through doing than thinking.

I don’t know what my 40’s will teach me.