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> Another reason I like this phrasing is that it biases us toward creation. It causes us to prefer the kind of ideas that are naturally seen as making things rather than, say, making critical observations about things other people have made. Those are ideas too, and sometimes valuable ones, but it's easy to trick oneself into believing they're more valuable than they are. Criticism seems sophisticated, and making new things often seems awkward, especially at first; and yet it's precisely those first steps that are most rare and valuable.

Do I really need to write why this is a self-serving and transparently flawed thinking, or is it obvious for all the smart people on here?



Why even go through the effort of making a criticism when you can satisfy the urge simply by pointing and implying one exists?


"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

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