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yawpitchlast Friday at 12:14 PM1 replyview on HN

I’ve met some really brilliant people who only finished the challenges they gave themselves because they had a community’s encouragement.

Seems to me you might want to relax your filters a bit and meet some of the other brilliant people.


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_rpxpxlast Friday at 1:55 PM

I think the central message of that article is precisely that he is completing the adventure only because of community encouragement - but that that is the assistance of all the incredible people he met along the way, strangers on the ground who supported him and helped him on his way, and his friends and family at home. The community is the real people on the ground, and it is the real and living community of the humans who inhabit the entire world. The commercial transmissions with you as TV star are totally unnecessary, and actually only get in the way... Thesiger said that the greatest thing about his adventure across the Arabian Desert was his comradeship with the Bedouin. You just can't have that while waiving a selfie-stick and grinning into the camera...

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