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I like this thread on the choice between being right or effective.

I also think a meta-lesson is that you should choose to be effective *with regards to problems that matter.* You will face substantial temptation to either be right or be effective where neither choice matters.
This is obvious and non-controversial when the topic is "How does my significant other consume burgers?", but the set of things that don't matter at all is much, much larger than it is widely assumed to be and overlaps with the set of things people are passionate about.
It also overlaps heavily with the set of things that people are incentivized to convince you matters.
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A thing I believe with medium confidence:

One reason many institutions today are weaker than counterparts were generations ago was that allocation of smart people got more efficient for certain definitions of efficient, and institutions no longer benefit from so much free lunch.
I don't know what to do with this belief, because on the one hand I rather like many institutions, but I don't particularly think they have a right to nosh on peoples' time and talents, and I think it feels unlikely that this genie goes back in the bottle.
"Can you give me an example?"

The Catholic Church for much of recorded history, teaching as a profession prior to women having routine access to professional employment, the United States federal government between about 1920 and about 1960, etc.
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They should charge more.

I mean this entirely unironically.
There are plenty of PowerPoint presentations with approximately the complexity of a pitch that that will straightforwardly hit that number in professional bills *without* hating access to a funding event, just on a time and materials basis for an expensive professional.
“What really?”

Lawyers, high-end accountants, and the like routinely work for hours to get the data, arguments, etc backing a single slide. Professional labor costs what it costs.
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A fun thing if you write a well-distributed door stopper of an article on a topic: people will name check you every time the topic comes up.

I did not anticipate this when writing that every computer system ever touching names is bugged.

Now I get CCed on a lot of bug reports.
If you become central clearinghouse for a bug class present on every computer system in the world, even at one basis point rate of being CCed, be forewarned that it is an awful lot of bug reports.
Sometimes people have figured out that I am probably the central clearinghouse and therefore might have a way to get the bug fixed on a computer system I am no way affiliated with somewhere in the world.
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