Nuance Is A Terible Strategy

I think I've ventured a bit too much into wordplay territory as almost everything is looked at from a nuanced relative perspective. That is good for understanding things at a broad level and maybe retain this ability to be open-minded about the fluid nature of said things.

For starting context, Mark Cuban's getting it right once seems loosely relevant to me when the right doesn't move much of the needle forward in terms of sustained impact. One lucky break doesn't necessarily create the foundation for anything lasting.

When playing infinite games, getting it right is the baseline to aim for and I need many many rights to keep momentum and maintain credibility while building trust equity, which compounds over time.

Of course, I would like to disappear into the sunset, take a break, and come back again with the sunrise within this infinite game territory. It's a much desired longing against the backdrop of always on modern life facilitated by the digital age.

Home runs are hard to come by, building a strategy primarily based on that may set you up for constant disappointment and erratic effort.

Swinging for the fences every time means you'll miss most of the time. Meanwhile, the people building something real are taking singles, showing up, doing the unremarkable work that somehow adds up to something remarkable.

The wordplay here is just a distraction from the friction of doing the work.

A shallow judge

How could I not judge a book by its cover in an almost infinite market of information?

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It's one of the only filtering mechanisms to 1) not waste my time and preserve my effort on content that won't deliver value relative to its consumption cost, and 2) allocate attention to signals rather than noise in an environment designed to fragment focus. Maybe no. 3 is accepting that surface-level judgment isn't that shallow when on the flip side it displays how much of an effort or lack thereof is put towards standing out or not.

If someone can't be bothered to make their work findable, digestible, or compelling at first glance, why should I assume the substance inside will be any different?

Meaning something in a world of infinite content.

Can what I create mean anything when meaning is diluted by the sheer volume of voices saying everything, everywhere, all at once?

The near constant subjective impression is that it shouldn't matter anymore, adding my voice is just contributing to the problem.

I think one may just as well need to be naive about it in a sense that they're the one saying it, in their own voice, from their specific vantage point in time and space. The right recipients will find it, or they won't.

However, the act of creating it matters independently of the outcome or subjectively objective meaning derived from the consensus of strangers.

Meaning something to a few people, in a real way, is enough, I think.

In summary, hit singles for a lifetime and make sure the cover art looks like a home run. That is the only way to be found in the noise, and the only way to stay relevant is to tell the truth once they open the book, of course.


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