On meeting heroes

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🔥 Austin's Notes / 📌 Posts / 🦸 On meeting heroes 🦸 On meeting heroes Since working on Manifold, I’ve met the coolest people on earth Would name them to make this concrete, BUT don’t want to appropriate status. So an analogy: Imagine you listen to Taylor Swift every day. Then Taylor Swift reaches out and says “hey I saw your music critique blog, super cool, wanna get lunch?” and then you have lunch and she basically presents as a normal human being, and sometimes trips over her own feet. This has happened to me 5-10 times in the last 6 months Saying: Never meet your heroes Thought it was because “they’ll disappoint you” So far, not very disappointed. But surprised - they’re not gods walking the earth Someone told me: this is good and normal; people who don’t present as normal, you should be extra skeptical of Worry: there are no gods walking the earth. No cabal of hypercompetent beings ready to take the helm when the going gets tough. Or at least it’s not clear there is a helm to ta

Since working on Manifold, I’ve met the coolest people on earth Would name them to make this concrete, BUT don’t want to appropriate status. So an analogy: Imagine you listen to Taylor Swift every day. Then Taylor Swift reaches out and says “hey I saw your music critique blog, super cool, wanna get lunch?” and then you have lunch and she basically presents as a normal human being, and sometimes trips over her own feet. This has happened to me 5-10 times in the last 6 months Saying: Never meet your heroes Thought it was because “they’ll disappoint you” So far, not very disappointed. But surpris

On meeting heroes

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