so if in 1980 there were 10 level 4 problems the hope is a general capability will bump 7 of them down to level 3 and bump 3 of them up to level 5 problem load reduction: 4*10-3*7-3*5=40-21-15=4 but then another level 4 problem might have been added in the meantime
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mediocre people I think should simply try to keep personal misery at bay, but in a broad-minded way, and differently at every life stage, reflecting the stakes of every stage, because if you’re miserable and not a Chosen One™ you’re almost certainly part of the problem
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0-18 your best bet is probably skills development 19-35 probably long-term thinking because you have the positivity of youth to overcome the the negativity burden 36-50 probably support/catalyze positive potentials that are developing in your lifetime 50+... ask me after 2024.
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turning 46 in a few weeks, definitely on the leeward slope of life in my head, almost certainly more life behind me than in front of me neither a part of the problem nor part of the solution to anything, but hopefully a net non-negative presence in the world
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to bring it back around, I can’t really think in time horizons any more, short or long, but I do think in terms of temporal textures like lucky/unlucky timelines, and in terms of transforming bad textures into good ones, or poisonous moods into non-poisonous ones
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Gen X appears 10 years younger than it is because our prime decade fell through the cracks between the death of old media and the rise of social media. 1995-2005, the missing life decade.https://twitter.com/skyler__adams/status/1319845329550725120?s=21 …
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Though I totally coasted through that decade doing absolutely nothing worthwhile so it’s fair to edit it out
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Do you have any Chosen Ones in mind? Greta Thunberg, maybe?
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I hadn’t checked lately