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Been a good week on the consulting front, where it feels like I actually made a small difference on an interesting and important matter, in a way I never could have as a regular employee. Those are the kinds of weeks you gig for. Microdoses of a sense of psychohistorical agency.
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One reason I do consulting instead of sticking to pure writing (besides $) is that pure writing is not a very satisfying life. Writing impact can occasionally be broad but is almost never deep. Psychohistorical nudging requires a kind of specificity general writing cannot achieve
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Pure consulting can also be "not a very satisfying life" unless you can select mandates that offer opportunities for psychohistorical nudging. Few people enjoy that option.
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