sketerpot comments on Take heed, for it is a trap - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Zed 14 August 2011 10:23AM

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Comment author: gwern 14 August 2011 03:23:39PM 6 points [-]

This reminds me of some old OB posts, I think, on non-conformity - the upshot being that you can't get away with being public on all the ways you are a maverick and to do so is self-sabotaging.

Comment author: sketerpot 14 August 2011 08:08:15PM 4 points [-]

Also tangentially related is Paul Graham's old essay What You Can't Say.