On one hand, I don’t actually find it that alarming that the talk/action ratio is skewed. Talk is way cheaper than action, so it’s not surprising there’s more of it.
The question is more like “how much of an ‘action bandwidth gap’ is there – how much serious action could people be doing that they aren’t already spending resources on? Of the people who can tractably allocate their time on ‘real action’, are the things they are currently working on more or less important than these other things?”
I also think when you sit down to brainstorm “okay, what sorts of serious projects might I want to embark”, I honestly don’t (usually) want people sifting through random things on social media. Those are selected for being fun to talk about, not necessarily important.
That said, some of these ideas do in fact seem like good projects for someone who’s sitting around thinking “man, I feel vaguely like I should Do Something but I’m not currently the sort of person who Does Things.” (For people in that position, I think getting started on Something, Anything, is more important than exactly which thing you pick)
On one hand, I don’t actually find it that alarming that the talk/action ratio is skewed. Talk is way cheaper than action, so it’s not surprising there’s more of it.
The question is more like “how much of an ‘action bandwidth gap’ is there – how much serious action could people be doing that they aren’t already spending resources on? Of the people who can tractably allocate their time on ‘real action’, are the things they are currently working on more or less important than these other things?”
I also think when you sit down to brainstorm “okay, what sorts of serious projects might I want to embark”, I honestly don’t (usually) want people sifting through random things on social media. Those are selected for being fun to talk about, not necessarily important.
That said, some of these ideas do in fact seem like good projects for someone who’s sitting around thinking “man, I feel vaguely like I should Do Something but I’m not currently the sort of person who Does Things.” (For people in that position, I think getting started on Something, Anything, is more important than exactly which thing you pick)