The “news” is a model of situation awareness for an industrial world. 40y ago, your stack observation ability was: Daily newspaper/TV for “local” and “national” news Phone grapevine Step out in street and chat with neighbors Walk around neighborhood
-
-
The better your stack instrumentation, the more calibrated and continuous your response can be.
Show this thread -
What we’ve learned from Covid is that the right assumption is continuous partial collapse, not rare binary state changes. And your response likewise should be continuous partial resiliency tuning, not a two-state switching curve between full-blown lockdown mindset and normalcy.
Show this thread -
Pre-enacting the coming gradually darkening ages for fun and profit. Buy my teachable course “stack survivalism 101”
Show this thread -
Show this thread
-
Show this thread
-
There’s also similarities to a cold war condition between you and the world. It’s a backdrop of tension that may get to you anytime, but if it not, you can continue in surreal normalcy. Like the Cold War was just normalcy with a side of polonium-tip umbrella assassinations.
Show this thread -
There’s surprising similarities between stack survivalism and gig economy career management. Pragmatic prepping is a series of life gigs rather than work gigs. Transition from ordinary life to continuous partial collapse life is a bit like transition from paycheck to gig life.
Show this thread -
In the gig economy, you see surge pricing coming, and you go live. In stack survivalist living you see a toilet paper outage coming and you stock up.
Show this thread -
I wonder how many people with bunkers are pissed that things are bad but not bad enough to retreat to bunkers. If I had a bunker I think I’d unconsciously be hoping for a chance to use it. And kinda hoping for the Real Thing™ instead of just a bunch of stock-outs and slow mail.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

