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On the travel curated recommendation do you think there would be a high willingness to pay? Is something like ābuy me a coffeeā tipping a better play? Also wondering if a marketplace specific to word-of-mouth recommendations that are in a specific niche, eg travel could work where they are āpaidā to make them more genuine and less reliant on sponsors / affiliates that can muddle incentives....
We need more custom "Fuckarounditis" list for software dev (e.g. IDE wars, "tutorial hell", not practicing Git, spaghetti code) and personal finance (e.g. toying options, day trading, not having a "lazy" portfolio, not having an emergency fund).
A fun thing to test is that "Fuckarounditis" and "ego X" (egolifting as the "hustle porn" of the gym) are two sides of the same midwit/clueless coin, and that lack of some self-practice or "tacit" knowledge is to blame.
For gymbros, fear of injury + not pushing to failure vs clueless to injury + egolifting. The core of it is the knowledge of sensible form (not "perfect form" for perfectionists). For finance bros, aversion to losses vs greed/gambling. The core of it is risk management. For programming, project stage fright vs tyranny of tutorials. The core of it is the mindset.
On the travel curated recommendation do you think there would be a high willingness to pay? Is something like ābuy me a coffeeā tipping a better play? Also wondering if a marketplace specific to word-of-mouth recommendations that are in a specific niche, eg travel could work where they are āpaidā to make them more genuine and less reliant on sponsors / affiliates that can muddle incentives....
We need more custom "Fuckarounditis" list for software dev (e.g. IDE wars, "tutorial hell", not practicing Git, spaghetti code) and personal finance (e.g. toying options, day trading, not having a "lazy" portfolio, not having an emergency fund).
A fun thing to test is that "Fuckarounditis" and "ego X" (egolifting as the "hustle porn" of the gym) are two sides of the same midwit/clueless coin, and that lack of some self-practice or "tacit" knowledge is to blame.
For gymbros, fear of injury + not pushing to failure vs clueless to injury + egolifting. The core of it is the knowledge of sensible form (not "perfect form" for perfectionists). For finance bros, aversion to losses vs greed/gambling. The core of it is risk management. For programming, project stage fright vs tyranny of tutorials. The core of it is the mindset.
Side note: too many links from other comments to reference. https://etiennefd.substack.com/p/becoming-ambitious/comment/6878909 https://goddisk.substack.com/p/the-basilisk-memetic-hazards-and/comment/9996472