The better your stack instrumentation, the more calibrated and continuous your response can be.
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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.
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Pre-enacting the coming gradually darkening ages for fun and profit. Buy my teachable course “stack survivalism 101”
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Yep this is it
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Replying to @vgr
I've been feeling something similar lately, so it's interesting to hear you put it into words. It's hard psychologically, because you accept the survivalist premise ("the system is on the brink") but reject the survivalist fantasy that this will make life simple and genuine
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Amen
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Replying to @meanderingexile and @vgr
instead of Zombieland's freedom or Tyler Durden's primitivism, you get some weirding nightmare where you're purifying your own water but still have to worry about office politics, getting into Route Irish-style gun battles on the way home while dodging robocalls from the IRS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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