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by tsunamifury 752 days ago
The point he’s making is one person cares about doing the task as efficiently as possible in a new way and the other cares about performative behavior done in a performative way.

He has a point. The point is inventors don’t care about repeating performative tasks like climbing a mountain everyone has already climbed before in the same way everyone else has.

They care about doing new things in better ways.

It’s a subtle but important distinction.