Most leveraged as in all-in on something fairly new and unproven (like blogging in 2007), not as in debt. Needs a label. My preferred mode is to early-adoption as grey-man mode is to tacticool. I like the edge, but rarely the next shiny new thing for its own sake.
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My default mode is actually lowest-energy/path of least resistance. In good times, I can coast with almost no effort on the slightest breeze of serendipity, putting like 99% of my energy into stuff I do for fun. IOW, 99% of my available energy is surplus/abundance energy.
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The problem with bad times isn’t that low-energy/path of least resistance diesnt work. It in fact works really well, and way better than more combative stances. The problem is even that minimum energy/resistance path is pretty demanding. Flow like water uphill over rocks.
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A fictional character who comes close to my ideal mode through good/bad times is Abelard Lindsey in Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix. He’s a consummate flow-like-water exit/escape artist. Picks no fights he doesn’t have to. Isn’t selfish, but is pragmatically aware of his own limits.
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I suspect I have a “correct play” poker sensibility though I don’t play poker. Pick the right table and play correctly even if it means you sometimes lose and an incorrect player wins by luck. This mindset is hard to bring to open-world infinite-game conditions.
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Curiously I think many strong preppers don’t have strong poker sensibilities in the sense that they’re disappointed if the future they prepped most for doesn’t happen. They’re emotionally invested in the apocalypse that proves them right even if it means they lost.
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The future you most prefer to live in needn’t be the one you prepare the most for. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst etc. This is hard because identity follows effort. If you spend hours a day honing fighting skills it can make you an unhappy misfit in a peaceful world.
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The inner game of prepping, I think is separating your identity development path from your effort path. Otherwise you end up victim of a metaverse level sunk cost fallacy. Just because you’ve logged 10k hours of zombie-killing prep doesn’t make the zombie apocalypse a good future
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This tweet is the peak of this thread. It goes beyond the apocalypse (say even career advice).
Effort has gravity - more you put in, the more it pulls you away from alternatives. Core caveat of
- FIRE
- Accumulate now, retire later
- Mansions (sorry)
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