Institutions are biography compressors. When somebody asks for my story in a context where I have to actually answer non-flippantly, every non-institutional year of my life adds about a minute to my story, but every institutional year can be efficiently explained in 10 seconds.
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I think about you as "Philosopher for Fun and Profit"
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If I introduced myself that way to new people I’d seem like an asshole. Which is not entirely wrong.
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doesn't seem like traditional compression (physician, lawyer, professor, grad student, soldier) gives an accurate pie chart of activities to relative laypeople either, tho. interesting that ppl assume you've been misleading them
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Pitch yourself like a movie "Consultant meets Batman" (or whatever)
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sub Joker (heath ledger)
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Why not use the "Uber for X" model and say you write Stratechery (or something similar they would know) for management consulting and magical thinking?
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That’s why I wrote in my bio “lossy compression not recommended” :) Even more true for your case!
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"Like Shingy, but...."
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I'm so stealing Daoist priest.
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