Biggest thing I’ve learned in the last 2 months: the basic currency of civilized life is time in a crisis, and it is *very* expensive Years of foresight work buy you days to weeks at most in a crisis Millions/billions of preparedness dollars buy you months at most ...
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Another way to appreciate this is just how screwed you’d get if a second crisis hits while a first is unfolding. Could California handle an earthquake now? Could you personally handle say an identity theft episode with all customer service logjammed? That’s a time crisis.
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Our normal use of time in a functioning society assumes a lot of other processes operating nominally, with ordinary wait times etc. A “normal accident” is 2 strikes and you’re out. 3 and you’re dead. If the virus were a human adversary it would try to actively open up 2nd fronts
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So a lot of preparedness culture that we instinctively understand is about tightening 2nd-crisis loops and reeling them in to protect them. Hence stockpiles, cash reserves wind-up/liquidation of assets. You’re protecting what little time you have against leaks.
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I’m pretty slow-moving at most times, but I do try to practice what I preach a little in crisis situations, by accelerating decisions, exercising options early, paying a premium for time etc. It’s very stressful for me, and not my natural mode. My normal mode is daydreaming.
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I spend a lot of time improving my understanding of this stuff because I actually hate being in situations where I have to act in such intensity modes. I’m not an adrenaline junkie. I’m the opposite, whatever that is. The better I understand it, the less time I have to be in it.
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I don’t get high intensity always-at-110% people
I hate it when I have to spike/surge past 70% intensity. even for a day or two. My ideal intensity is 50%. Half-dead is a very pleasant state of being.Show this thread
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The race has already begun
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Can ordinary people even be prepared for this? Aren’t we the cake who gets sliced up?
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"the basic currency of civilized life is time in a crisis" scales all the way down to individuals too. That's the best we can do. The preppers were mostly dicks -- but they were right.
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For some reason this tweet made me remember the movie Contact and how Ellie, despite discovering the signal, has to be brought back to the table by Hadden to have a say in “the game of the millennium”https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/characters/nm0000457?ref_=ho_web&from_app=ios&ref_=ext_iosp_ho_web …
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