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He is explicitly advocating for the worst. That's the literal title. If you made a spectrum of options, he's advocating to go as extreme on that spectrum as you
by anm89 4y ago
He is explicitly advocating for the worst. That's the literal title. If you made a spectrum of options, he's advocating to go as extreme on that spectrum as you can.
According to him, anything beyond the good will used bin is the wrong choice. He's advocating for an extreme.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoYeah I can see that, I guess I wasn't taking it as literally. > But the worst counters that if we’d like to de-emphasize things that we don’t want to be the focus of our life, we probably shouldn’t start by obsessing over them. That we don’t simplify by getting the very best of everything, we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don’t matter one way or the other. My take away from the conclusion was "care less about stuff" and I interpreted the counter-examples as more demonstration of why "the best" doesn't always literally mean "the best" and that sometimes "the worst" ends up better in a different way.