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This thread is not for geniuses. It is meant for mediocrities leveraged by and leveraging, systems. I think I'm going to call it "Intelligence Communism" just to trigger people. Lestrade mode.
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A megatrend hypothesis inspired by several microtrend that I think are related: a) waldenponding b) rise of heavy duty information management methods like @fortelabs BASB (build a second brain) c) conversational media eating authorial media d) "hivebrain" jokes/references
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I'll add some framing meta-thoughts. Choosing to live in a GSCITC over waldenponding (an admitted caricature of the extreme opposite) is like choosing to live in a city over a log cabin. At some level you admit that you're better at surviving in an advanced collective context.
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It took centuries, but our identities are no longer tied to being literal breadwinners as in hunting/farming. We're happy to re-anchor bread-winning ego/vanity to earning tokens (money) in an artificial economy. There was a time when earning $ was not unlike earning likes today.
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Both waldenponding and GSCITC immersion seem like sort of easy ways out from some golden, gritty, strenuous middle way that we should have a name for, something like "real work," neither "deep work" nor "surfing."
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