Comment by patcon
6 months ago
I so strongly agree with this.
I've never been a completionist. I'm distracted. I like novelty. I make half-form experiments, but mostly provide deeply immersive conversations for the benefit of a small group of people around me, some of whom go on to make/do things that I proudly feel my influence on. The final 10% of work often defeated me.
Now, I just make it happen. The pain is gone. Something else can carry the last 10%, and my ideas get realized by me (and AI).
I can't even conceive how this will change the world en masse. Knowledge domains (not just tech, but science, art, etc) have been built of the things that the type-A completionists knew how to see. The others didn't finish, and what they saw of the world has largely been marginalized.
The mind of ADHD and creative types is about to get much more represented in the output products of civilisation. This is going to be a big recalibration, and I think a re-balancing toward something more healthy tbh
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