Investment is a bet on what the future will look like and a vote on what the future should look like. These two observations are sometime in tension.
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If you were totally unfamiliar with the culture of American nerds Silicon Valley’s investment choices would often be extremely curious until you a) learned what science fiction is and b) got familiar with some very specific writers and genre tropes. Many more examples.
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You could also mention more traditional mainstays of culture like e.g. religion as affecting those intellectual interests, but the science fiction thing sticks out to me not because it is low status but because it had extremely leveraged, focused impact on the future through this
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Hmm I would argue people do do this. But in general I’m not a fan of it because of cycle time mismatch it really over weights grifters since easier for people willing to do fast fashion-esque shift to match market multiple
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I can think of a lot of examples of that, too, but the optimist in me thinks that intellectual traditions worth preserving have to somehow be robust against a gadfly reading three books and being able to successfully present as an expert, or *what’s the point.*
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reminded me of this posthttps://medium.com/swlh/investing-inside-the-ooda-loop-17356c4a6ceb …
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