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I think it’s time to start making my thread of threads and begin reeling in my dissipated brain. 1. Boundary intelligence
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1/ I'd like to make up a theory of intelligence based on a 2-element ontology: boundary and interior intelligence
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2. Two kinds of investing
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The word “invest” has 2 distinct meanings in relation to capital: Invest (1): Spend money to build a capability. Example: a bridge, a factory, a mansion. Invest (2): Spend money to acquire a formal stake in an existing capability. Example: stock, bond, lien. 2 now dominates 1
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3. Bullshit jobs and culture wars
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Culture war wrangling has unfortunately become a key element in my consulting. It is now the 4th, and youngest manifestation of bullshit jobs. Bullshit jobs evolve in one of 4 ways: automation, outsourcing, trumpification, and now: wokification. Only the first 2 are survivable
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4. On Grift
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Grifts are undertheorized, and too often conflated with long cons, scams, frauds and other more blatant soft crimes. Lemme offer a definition. A grift is a scheme that profits from the existence of a real problem without actually addressing it.
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5. Learning as rental over ownership
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Stuff you learned and forgot feels like rent paid. You lived in it for a while but are now left with no equity in it. Most schooling only rents you some knowledge for a while.
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7. On snobby Holmesean case work with singular features
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I'm becoming more snobby about work than I can probably afford to be from a financial perspective. Like Sherlock Holmes, I require "singular features" to take a case. I can spot the consulting equivalent of a "evidence of cheating spouse for a divorce case" a mile off now.
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And this one is a classic.
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