Venkatesh Rao

There’s something like personal conservation laws. Things that stay constant for you. Know thyself = grok your conserved quantities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_of_motion …

Rule: The most acting-dead part of you is generally in charge

This is why the call it dead reckoning

Actually crowds don’t turn either. Instead some old members die and new young members enter on quasi-random new headings so average vector does a sort of slow random walk.

The most alive people are the ones who turn, to align with the deadest people (“leaders”) they can project their desired direction on because living energy is scary to own directly. The most powerful leaders are the literally dead ones, aka martyrs, Straussian greats etc.

I don’t think the Motivational Speakers Bureau is going to accept my membership application