There’s orders of magnitude more information freely available to everybody today, to inform even the most trivial decisions, than even the top intelligence analysts had for the most crucial decisions 60y ago. Yet we act surprised that armies of sensemakers are cropping up.
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One reason crypto blew up the way it did was it is a rhyming hyper-lottery of the sort us attention economy gamblers had already learned to recognize and navigate. I bet you’d find unreasonable correlation between Very Online lifestyles and getting in on crypto profitably early.
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Anyhow, I’d *like* a less stressful, chaotic lifestyle. Hyper-lotteries are very cortisol inducing if you have to rely on them 100% for a living. But apparently that’s where there’s a strong, liberating, product-market fit between me and this postcapitalist weird economy.
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People who don’t know me well tend to assume I could easily be doing apparently similar stuff like hedge fund analyst work, traditional media (journalism or books). Nope. They call for wildly different kinds of aptitudes.The sense-making hyper-lottery is poles apart.
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