6 ms·

It can both be a wild success and not what he expected.

• hatefulheart 2mo ago
  These two not mutually exclusive? “Wild success” and “going slower than expected”? Wake me up when words have a meaning again.
  • ben_w 2mo ago
    > These two not mutually exclusive? Correct, they are not. Consider: Someone who "expects" their bank account to have $100M in it before they turn 30 and "only" gets it to $10M. From the point of view of a normal sane person, they are experiencing "wild success", and yet at the same time they are definitely "going slower than [they] expected".
    • hatefulheart 2mo ago
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      • ben_w 2mo ago
        If you don't like a personal scale example, just replace the M with a B. Or even a T, given the SpaceX IPO. The only point here is "not as fast as expected" can still be a lot.
      • hlynurd 2mo ago
        Are you sure you are not the troll? Your rhetoric is highly aggressive.