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Hey thecollective, good work on the TOTW this time around. This has been a subject I've been thinking a lot about lately.

As an autodidact, I struggle with this a lot. I have amassed a lot of knowledge and made connections between ideas, and lately I have been wanting to use this tendency of mine to be useful in some way. In some ways, this can be done simply by living: being very intentional with people in my life, communalizing resources, not falling for society's tricks and traps, etc. But I also want to be able to write things that are meaningful and useful to others, about things that people care about. Yet, every time I start researching that I know a little bit about in-depth, I'll see some rad expert publish something similar to what I was aiming for, but much more fleshed out.

Maybe the problem is trying to find a "hot take" that nobody else has said yet about a hot topic. I don't know. But yeah, it's hard for someone who spends a lot of time reading, who's not an expert, to feel like I am using my "talents" and knowledge to good use.