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"Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball" by Nate Soares

2023/2/3
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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zp6wG5eQFLGWwcG6j/focus-on-the-places-where-you-feel-shocked-everyone-s)Writing down something I’ve found myself repeating in different conversations:If you're looking for ways to help with the whole “the world looks pretty doomed” business, here's my advice: look around for places where we're all being total idiots.Look for places where everyone's fretting about a problem that some part of you thinks it could obviously just solve.Look around for places where something seems incompetently run, or hopelessly inept, and where some part of you thinks you can do better.Then do it better.