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Re:Do things, tell people (2012) by ReactiveJelly on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:13PM (#30216769)
I feel like I read this as a Paul Graham essay or something.

There was an analogy about the area of a rectangle where one axis was doing things and the other was talking about things.

Can anyone find it and link these parallel discoveries together?

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Re:Do things, tell people (2012) by nishnik on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:58PM (#30217169)
Are you referring to the luck surface area? https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...
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Re:Do things, tell people (2012) by FearNotDaniel on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:06AM (#30218594)
It sounds like the Conjoined Triangles of Success.
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Re:Do things, tell people (2012) by marginalia_nu on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:20AM (#30219366)
That's one of the tesselated hexagons of self-help ideas!
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