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Plateaus

It is easy to think that people pay us for what we make, for producing optimized outputs in a frictionless Configuration.

But they pay us for who we are when we make said things and how we navigate (use/aestheticize) the friction that living in the real world introduces.

We can most feel this duality once skills plateau.

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