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That’s an interesting, uh, 55 words I guess. The bar to clear to be a “thought leader” is solidly subterranean.

Counterpoint: some of the time the hardest expression is that which is simple. Brevity is the soul of wit. Blaise Pascal and his longer letter. Not all thought leadership has to be long form or particularly insightful seeming in the moment. I do mostly agree with you, but it is worth pausing to consider it a little more deeply.

It's far easier to construct banal bumper sticker slogans that merely appear profound, than to construct profound aphorisms.

It seems like a pretty useful nugget of insight for a bunch of people.

Then again, not everybody needs to hear every single nugget of insight. Lots of nuggets of insight are banal to maybe 95% of the population, but super useful to the last 5%. 5% of 300 million people is 15 million people, which is nothing to sneeze at.

I am skeptical of these 15 million people that will be floored by the sheer intellectual heft of learning that “different words have different meanings” for the first time on a blog.

I learned a new word today — pleonasm — and this is a neat opportunity to use it in a sentence: There are people for whom their entire livelihood relies on producing pleonasms!

Agreed, it kind of seems like a stub that he meant to turn into an entire blog post one day. I do feel like I see many people in my life clinging to questionable habits. I personally have a nicotine addiction and it is easy for me to trick myself into labeling it as a need.

It’s been my experience that Seth can fit more wisdom in 55 words than most can get into 1000

He thinks therefor he is

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