jtgi
@jtgi
Talked about the midwit meme in earnest for 2h over coffee yesterday. It’s the most important meme of the decade for me.
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jtgi
@jtgi
topics ranged: - thinking is an anti pattern, if you have to think too much it’s a good indicator to do more instead. - often you progress from left to right, and u do it by experiencing more not thinking more - aging through the midwit meme: simpleton teens, midwit 20’s/30’s, enlightened 30’s/40’s. - truths are simple and often abstract, available to left side thru naivety and low iq, available to the right side thru experience and wisdom. the midwit probably doesn’t believe in any form of truth, cause they can’t know anything. and ya, as a recovering midwit very aware I’m midwitting the midwit meme
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jtgi
@jtgi
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.
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Giuliano Giacaglia
@giu
Great points. It is one of my favorite memes
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