Researcher Says Passion Shortage, Not Intelligence, Limits Innovation

if you are diamond at league of legends the only thing stopping you from building a billion dollar company is finding a problem you are so excited by that you never think about anything else

like the mechanics, map awareness, perfect execution at every step. all these things would have been extremely impressive if video games were something boring

but because the average dude will game for 20k hours these skills feel super uncool even if they're objectively hard

in addition to: 1. not needing immediate feedback loop for every action 2. acting in an unconstrained space without clear rules, and without having to pick your next action from a set list of actions

@gabriel1 @nicole_clash

@gabriel1 What rank is top 5%?

@gabriel1 You’re right but you’re miscalculating pretty hard here. If you’re diamond in league with nothing built, you also likely don’t have anything you’re actually passionate about.

I’m diamond in league, like years ago. Before responsibility.

My useless friend is diamond too.

@djcows @gabriel1 ofc you're a cass main

@gabriel1 doubt, surely its a skill but a different kind of skill than engineering

@gabriel1 Well AI help the passionate people do more and AI is inherently conscientious

@gabriel1 league has open abstraction loops the gaming world has never seeen before or again

@gabriel1 Top 5% is nothing lol. You’re still barely above noob tier at that point. Go be #1 at something. Everything else is just second rate.

And the skill gap for being a great engineer is much larger, although such skills will often overlap and be useful in both scenarios.

@gabriel1 top 5% is not that hard

it's actually quite terrible. the gap between low diamond to master, master to grandmaster, grandmaster to challenger, challenger to rank 1 is fucking gigantic

as low diamond player you are probably closer to iron players than master players

@gabriel1 i look forward to trillionaire status

@gabriel1 put your money where your mouth is and hire faker

@gabriel1 Top 5% isn’t that diamond?

@gabriel1 HAHA these posts keep coming up but man what if i wanna queue an aram.. just one aram man come on

@gabriel1 Being an Arc Warden spammer in immortal ranks changes your brain chemistry, can confirm

@gabriel1 Not sure the feedback loops are immediate.. past a certain point in most games to improve you need to start treating it like a sport, watching your replays to find errors, drilling fundamentals, etc. or at least I did. Maybe I just lack talent lmao

@gabriel1 Fascinating how wrong you are about what companies are and what makes them successful. The way you’re viewing it is very employee brained.

@gabriel1 Does this apply to tft iyo