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    1. Breaking Smart‏ @breaking_smart 30 Aug 2019
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      A few furtherthoughts on this week’s podcast...https://twitter.com/breaking_smart/status/1167510809334837248 …

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      New podcast (15 min): Investing in Your Ordinary Powers https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/investing-in-your-ordinary-powers …
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      Breaking Smart‏ @breaking_smart 30 Aug 2019
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      We’ve recognized for 250 years since Adam Smith that Industrialization= specialization. Yet we rarely talk about how the obvious psychological program there was to make everybody feel special. Ironically this created Ortega’s “mass man” archetype. Creature of mass specialization.

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        2. Breaking Smart‏ @breaking_smart 30 Aug 2019
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          A system reaches peak perfection just before it unravels. The ultimate Specialized Human is the precious snowflake. The antithesis is the Clod. A piece of undifferentiated humanity. I wrote about snowflakes vs clods in this ribbonfarm post:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/17/how-to-be-a-precious-snowflake/ …

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        3. Breaking Smart‏ @breaking_smart 30 Aug 2019
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          Your clod-nature is your investment in the index fund of humanity. Not a creature of a particular era of civilization, but a creature of a broad, species level genetic heritage. As a cold you represent nature’s investment in blue chip evolutionary stocks like opposable thumbs.

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        4. Breaking Smart‏ @breaking_smart 30 Aug 2019
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          Breaking smart understood through an Industrial Age lens is pursuing the vector of your specialness. An investment in your inner precious snowflake. You are your own alpha. You win if you win. You lose if you lose. This is the most perfect misunderstanding possible.

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        5. Breaking Smart‏ @breaking_smart 30 Aug 2019
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          The key idea in my podcast was that breaking smart, viewed from a software-eaten world perspective, is about going long on your clod-nature. The broader macroeconomic metaphor is capital flight. Humanity withdrawing human capital from its industrial nature to reinvest elsewhere.

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        6. Breaking Smart‏ @breaking_smart 30 Aug 2019
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          This looks like rewilding in the short term. A sort of retreat to paleo stocks of human traits. In the longer term, it also means reinvesting in cyber traits. Hence the idea of a cyberpaleo ethos, which I wrote about in 2017, but only just grokked myselfhttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-cyberpaleo-ethic-and-the-spirit …

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        7. Breaking Smart‏ @breaking_smart 30 Aug 2019
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          So very ironically, the way to break smart and actually be special and make the transition to a cyberpaleo ethos, you have to seek out that which makes you ordinary. To be special is to be ordinary To be ordinary is to be special

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