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"It's the Honest Introspection part that everyone falls down on. Because no one wants to admit they were wrong. Especially to themselves" Sharing for Validation vs. Valuable Sharing Taking Feedback: Optics vs. Optimization Finite vs. Infinite Relationships The Art of Advice Becoming a better Man: Friend, Citizen, Colleague, Human A large portion of these notes are paraphrasing feedback or direct quotes. Thank you Adam Majmudar, James Lin, Will Depue, Brian Norgard, and Naval Ravikant for the sincere feedback and advice. I have a long way to grow ❤️

Ego Notes to self on Ego, Status, External Validation, Relationships, Infinite and Finite Games Feb 23rd, 2024 by Sigil Wen "It's the Honest Introspection part that everyone falls down on. Because no one wants to admit they were wrong. Especially to themselves" Sharing for Validation vs. Valuable Sharing Social Media Leverage can easily be derailed to negative compounding - Status optimization, productivity signalling. Core purpose of Media: Distribution for Authenticity. Share for Value not Status Status and Productivity Signalling are Short term- the types of people who look up to / are attr

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