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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect) — Mark Twain

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Life has become so much about productivity and being prolific that quantity is the new quality. We can’t just go by making one quality product as it doesn’t abide by the attention of the consumers.

We’re stuck in a loop where every major quality IP needs to follow with smaller but constant bite sized releases to even fulfill the smallest of appetites.

It’s about diving into a world and keeping yourself entertained by doing the latest and seemingly greatest because recency bias is its own prejudice.

We trick ourselves into believing everything of now trumps the triumphs of yesterday’s plow. But we have to look back at everything with equal eyes so that we can equalize.

And it’s in this same way that we focus on the immediate, forgetting that there is an intermediate to follow on. And we become part of this curse, allowing even slight mistakes to overtake our own breaks. We don’t give ourselves a chance because we’re so involved by what invoked what could not be resolved. And so we forget that we need to cut lose…