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being excellent in a narrow domain* allows you to be utterly incompetent in every other domain and you can still be a rich** bitch talking shit ___ * easier to be moderately excellent across two domains. also, critically, you have to solve for distribution ** or non-$ capital
for a fictional example, if you're moderately attractive, and you're pretty damn good at sudoku, you can become The Hot Sudoku Babe and then subject 2 million sudoku fanboys and horny nerds to the worst hot takes imaginable in between speed-solving sudokus in lingerie
wait now this sounds like i'm subtweeting smart-hot girls lmfao but this applies in everything the guy who makes dilbert isn't that great at comics drawing, or writing jokes, but he found his niche, articulated his vector, and people literally tell him what to write/make
see Molly's tweet in this thread https://t.co/0tGgRmGpeh
you dont really need to solve for your weaknesses in order to win big. you should def solve them, bc life sucks less that way! but winning big doesn't come from solving weaknesses. all the successful products suck in some way & they will never care, lolsob https://t.co/ZqUx8loouY
winning is what unlocks the resources you need in order to help address your weaknesses again i say to you the Apple I was ugly and incomplete https://t.co/7w2bC2fyw0
i mean beautiful in its own way yea yea sure but apple's beautiful design philosophy etc is a moat that came after they first got to product-market fit, please see this and consider how it applies in your own life and your own perfectionism etc
it's not an exaggeration to say that my life really started to turned around when I started to understand this https://t.co/PGGQhIksya
my ebooks aren't even finished, they are like the exposed Apple I but now some people have given me money and attention etc and I can work on updating the books from a place of confidence, strength, knowledge, rather than flounder in psychological torment, not-knowing
ship your ugly-ass Apple I let people laugh and criticize most people won't even pay attention and they won't even remember or care past a certain amount but some small % of people will be "wait, there's something good here" embrace them, ask them to tell you more build
reflect on this, seriously!!! https://t.co/IGcLv1cZ9L
"it's just luck" THEN GET LUCKY ok birth lottery is the one thing you can't influence, but almost everything else is negotiable every person you talk to increases your exposure to luck everything you publish online increases your exposure to luck https://t.co/OqmTWpYNpU
here is a bit of my summary of @pmarca's 2007 blogpost about James Austin's 4 kinds of luck, from his 1978 book Chase, Chance and Creativity 1. blind luck 2. add variability through tinkering 3. add discernment 3. add unique frame of reference https://t.co/VC2iCbu8kk
@visakanv I like the luck, happenstance, circumstance, distinction I defined in https://t.co/Yq4vYLMHQi
@visakanv Basically: Circumstance is how you happen to find yourself in the world (where, when, who, etc you were born), happenstance is just some stuff that happens, and luck is your habitual orientation towards the endless stream of happenstance life provides you with.
@DRMacIver yes to this! i often find myself in a position where i'm explaining to people that they can do things much cheaper than they think, if they lower their standards. eg upload one-shot youtube videos without editing https://t.co/KfCvcsDHzB
