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Many people are picking up strong new habits during Covid *despite* themselves, many involving significant skills. My own breakfast burritos are now so good, I doubt I'll be eating them
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Been reflecting on wealth and success (in conventional sense, which may involve some combination of wealth, fame, accomplishment, historic impact, etc) lately.Both are things I am not personally very motivated
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Something I’ve been thinking about. The earliest telescopes after Galileo were often very high f numbers to mitigate chromatic aberration because they didn’t know how to make achromatic lenses and
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This is exactly backwards. Urbanization was driven by desire to escape oppressive togetherness of small town/village life. The primary draw of cities in history has been escaping your tribe. The
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1/ Lemme do a 1-slide presentation since I'm feeling job sick. Title: How to Actually Manage Attention Without Smashing Your Phone and Retreating to a Log Cabin 2/ Premise: FOMO
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So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational
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Ultimately what you're selling as a grifter is a self-image as an integrated, good person who has agency and exercises it wisely and morally. The buyers are precisely people who
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The older I get the more it sinks in that 90% of effectiveness is just taking a thing seriously enough. That translates to just wanting the thing itself rather than
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Culture war wrangling has unfortunately become a key element in my consulting. It is now the 4th, and youngest manifestation of bullshit jobs.Bullshit jobs evolve in one of 4 ways:
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Grifts are undertheorized, and too often conflated with long cons, scams, frauds and other more blatant soft crimes. Lemme offer a definition.A grift is a scheme that profits from the
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The word “invest” has 2 distinct meanings in relation to capital:Invest (1): Spend money to build a capability. Example: a bridge, a factory, a mansion.Invest (2): Spend money to acquire
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This is, like what, Normal #17 right?Each new normal seems to last about a couple of weeks now. The first few lasted less than a week each. The normals are
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