My grandpa always told me: “You go through life with a Track Record.“
The obvious implication being if you “Stay on the Straight + Narrow” and don’t mess up, your record stays good. But if you let your foot off the gas, so to speak, you lose ground.
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That’s all well and good when you’re at your first Starting Block.
But I’ve also seen + experienced how demoralizing this singular perspective can have in the face of defeat.
Everyone inevitably faces defeat.
Everyone faces setbacks.
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That’s all to say zooming very far in on this sort of gamification is useful, but after the novelty, humans tend to stray from the beaten path, losing sight of what we were after when we started ‘the journey’, circling deep eddies of our creations.
Sometimes we build things that are so useful, so accessible, and so viral, that it spreads through humanity like wildfire, igniting amazing creativity + ingenuity.
But this creates a necessary ‘stagnant ubiquity’.
There are inevitably hidden costs.