Scott wonders how anyone could ever find this surprising. I think it’s like many things—the underlying concept is obviously there once you point it out, but it’s easier not to think about or notice it, and easier not to have a model of what’s going on beyond a vague sense that it is there and that this counts as the virtuous level of noticing.
My sense over time of how important this is gets bigger, not smaller, and I see almost no one properly noticing the taste of the Lotus. So this seems like one of the most important posts.
Scott wonders how anyone could ever find this surprising. I think it’s like many things—the underlying concept is obviously there once you point it out, but it’s easier not to think about or notice it, and easier not to have a model of what’s going on beyond a vague sense that it is there and that this counts as the virtuous level of noticing.
My sense over time of how important this is gets bigger, not smaller, and I see almost no one properly noticing the taste of the Lotus. So this seems like one of the most important posts.