All agency (not just financial) lately seems to have flowed upwards into the hands of fewer people 🤔.
Partly concentration, but more importantly urgency. Covid, climate…
Urgency creates leverage for concentration.
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Bottom-up power = network effects = takes a long time before it has “overnight” effects.
Which means if you’re not in some sort of consequential 1%, for the time being you’re sorta benched. Twiddle thumbs, seed something that might have a chance of blowing up in 4-5 years.
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And most of that urgency is illusory. Covid will be endemic and we'll fuck up the planet one way or another.
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But what I learned from the pandemic is that the perception of time and space are inextricably linked. So maybe I don't need urgency to find agency if I dive deep enough into the weeds and learn how to look at the world as does an earthworm.


