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The Moat of Low Status
It hurts, but less than you think
I’ll be running a few excerpts here in the next couple months, in hopes of getting feedback on the kinds of content people are excited to see in the book (which is a signal about what to expand or scale back). You’ve re-entered the state of childlike wonder where you don’t have adult concepts to mediate reality, what William James called “blooming, buzzing confusion.” Shame can be a golden ticket. Every time, I’ve had to reconcile myself to months of being a relative dumbass in a room full of experts, constantly asking them to explain basic concepts or terminology, exposing myself as not possessing knowledge they all take for granted.
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