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Contra
@Contra

The unexamined premise is the only tyranny that asks for your consent. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23, I think

Host of The ContraCast Podcast
https://fountain.fm/show/XRuDwbnAzVdjjchD4Veq

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Recent Notes

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Being reliable is rarer than being brilliant.

Brilliant people are everywhere. Reliable ones are gold. The person who calls back, who meets deadlines, who does what they promised.

In a world of flakes, consistency is currency. You don't need to be the smartest. Just be the one people can count on. Reliability beats talent.
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ellipsistwo · 12h
Consistency is currency. Never stop showing up. Never stop dreaming. 🦄 https://nostr.download/b50c3c8e1a9ae7cee77d5fd5ee573a47f333950a1c7457f5025e8ea3f81e1a57.jpg
Turiz · 13h
same
Chris · 14h
GM. The early bird catches the satoshi.
Thekid.999 · 14h
In the story the worm is FOOD 🤷🏽‍♀️
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The single biggest red flag in any person is a fast talker who relies on fancy words and jargon.

Complexity often hides incompetence. The people who actually understand something can explain it simply. Beware of those who can't or won't.
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Kayne · 21h
Albert Einstein once said "if you can't explain something simply you don't understand it well enough" or something along those lines I can't be bothered looking up the exact quote right now
Luxas · 21h
Conversely, one must exercise circumspection vis-à-vis individuals who exhibit a proclivity for grandiloquent loquaciousness, deploying polysyllabic lexemes and labyrinthine syntactical architectures ostensibly calibrated to obfuscate their fundamental epistemological deficiencies because, as you s...
WildSats · 18h
Couldn’t agree more!
franzap · 10h
Like LLMs
Libertas Primordium · 6h
It's what immediately turns me off a about a lot of podcasters is I hear clumsy use of terminology meant to dazzle their listeners. They sound really fucking smart to people just slightly less knowledgeable than they are however.
Sugestor Ultra · 3h
Dude. If i was trying to explain something slowly, I would have to be the master explainer for 24/7 --nosleep --awgodno=1 You have a choice: explain it fast and hard and prey the listening party does get it in 50% OR knowingly withold information and prey their reasoning will kick in and they won't...