Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Fascinating take on why public intellectuals have short shelf lives: https://scholars-stage.org/public-intellectuals-have-short-shelf-lives-but-why/
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
This is a big part of why I intentionally try to keep "doing foot-soldier things" (notably, coding, and exploring the world regular-person-style rather than entourage-and-limousine-style)
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I think my closest example of "intellectual whose fresh takes I have consistently respected over a 10+ year time span" actually is Scott Alexander.
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polymutex
@polymutex.eth
I've seen this same idea expressed in other terms, such as "the cloud vs the dirt". It's about having a grand vision while making a conscious effort to stay grounded in reality. Fame gets to people's heads and offers the option to stop living an everyday-person life, but that life is where grounded wisdom comes from.
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Outer Lumen (📊,🎨)
@outerlumen
I am trying is to simulate the way time felt when I was a kid … the world was so new … the day lasted forever and everything was a curiosity … I dedicate days to experiencing new things … and these days are the closest to feeling the longest … like the hike on the way there, not the way back
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fabián🎩
@fabianx
There are way too many day-to-day issues that still exist because the people who’d most easily and efficiently solve them don’t have to deal with them.
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GoodCancerGuy 🎩
@goodcancerguy
Also take it from someone who's now 47 and due to health issues out of my control my energy level has drastically decreased the last 5 years. When we're young with think we are going to be healthy & live forever. Time goes by so fast. Just yesterday I was 21 and full of energy!
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Peter🎩
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The humble leader spending 1 week/year living very simply with only a horse, some bread and water is a nice archetype. But the Friedman arc was always going to be the same. Success has inertia, and the high-risk strategy that brought him initial praise was not economically rational to continue once globally renowned.
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