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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And all it takes is one fool in the wrong place at the wrong time to entirely waste all the time bought.
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On the flip side “there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen”... so a week bought for crisis time and defended well against fools is worth a decade. So if you weigh the value of time with exponential correctness, the effort/reward is worth it
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This has also given me a very fresh appreciation of the OODA loop.irs not billions of dollars, it’s not N95 masks. It’s time. Tempo tempo tempo. Every decision you make a day or week earlier than others gains you OODA time.
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Deeper insight equates to speed which can be measured in time gained. Time measured in opportunities otherwise not available
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Exactly. Win the N95 race and you at least have a chance to fight the ventilator battle. There’s this Rube Goldberg type leverage sequence that c0nverts minutes to hours to weeks... like a fractal unfolding of a high potential bit of time.
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