Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
My work ethic seems to comprise three core values - sense of responsibility - mediocre standards - resistance to futility Net effect: I underpromise but deliver,* except when revealed futility makes me back out of commitments * I sometimes underdeliver, but rarely overdeliver except by accident. But simple delivery often looks like overdelivery when most people overpromise and underdeliver
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christin
@christin
how did mediocre standards produce internet evergreen pieces like gervais principle, etc.?!
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
They are highly mediocre
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christin
@christin
🤣 i see, the tautology of standards at play
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I literally just phoned it in one day with a single draft It wasn’t a carefully planned and edited essay. Zero QA or complex rewrites. It was just a single-sitting brain dump. So are most of my hit posts The heavily worked pieces almost never do well
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Rika
@rikasukenik.eth
I think heavily worked pieces are more for personal development. I end up researching a bunch and then through the process learn a lot about myself.
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