Mastodawn

I no longer believe experience causes you to innovate less. Rather, it lessens willingness to harm because it deepens your understanding of it.

Young founders are usually fueled by either naiveté (being setup to be harmed) or narcissism (becoming a source of harm).

Inexperience thereby breeds an extractive cycle of harm that self-perpetuates: The naive become narcissists who prey on the naive.

Deep experience breeds folks who want to take up woodworking & farming to avoid causing more harm.

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Lincoln Russell 4d ago

I expanded on this idea and made it my annual 'spring returns' post: https://lincolnwebs.com/cyclical-harm/

cyclical harm – burning web

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Russell

@linc The thought that I keep circling around is Empathy, or a lack thereof. I wonder if maybe people hear Empathy and think Sympathy or some other negative connotation. The ability to imagine how someone else feels, how they think, what they base decisions on, or what motivates them...

And then add in all that goes into getting a paycheck just to eat/sleep/provide for tomorrow; the incentive structure doesn't allow much room for broad introspection.