People working backwards from big long-term goals that still make sense with pandemic interruption have an easier time. You pick up where you left off. If curing cancer or getting to Mars created purpose for you in 2019 it probably still does in 2022.
But for improv types…
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… it’s harder. It’s like waiting for the universe to say “yes, and…” to the last thing you said in 2019.
I’ve never been a long-term planner, let alone life-goal type. A week is my normal improv horizon. The weeks sometimes compound or have network effects but it’s mot planned
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The tide’s been out for a long time. It’s like the moon vanished or something. A growing “bound in shallows and miseries” feeling.
I kinda suspect Putin invaded Ukraine to shake off this feeling.
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Ie there’s a strong temptation to try and jumpstart history with *any* move, even a dumb, pointless one. Exists at all scales. From Putin or Musk down to you and me. The “shallows and miseries” state is tough to endure.
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Even people with strong missions and tunnel visions around them are uneasy, because their missions unravel if the rest of humanity is “bound in shallows and miseries”
Elon’s been tunnel visioned on making Mars rockets and babies. Why did he need this dumb twitter spasm?
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Shit the entire world is kinda waiting for Godot isn’t it? Only the clueless are barreling on with their missions unaware that the world’s attention has unraveled and the overall plot lost. Bless ‘em.
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This post I wrote in March 2020 kinda foreshadowed where we are now. We lost the plot collectively and individually in early 2020 and haven’t recovered.
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Lol, look what I wrote then.
“Low-level grifters might hoard toilet paper, sell fake N95 masks, or peddle fake cures, but bigger, Bond-villain level moves are hard to script.”
We haven’t moved an inch. History is dead in the water. If Even Elon can’t make up a Bond villain move
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This follow on post from May 2020 basically called it. This is where we are now.
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Come on universe, make your next creative move. Bring on a proper new “tide in the affairs of men.” Send Godot out to fight.
Yet another omicron variant ain’t it. 🤬
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When the ship of history is stuck in the doldrums, there are no smart moves. No cleverly leveraged use of winds and currents of change. You just have to break out the oars and start rising.
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Less doldrums than a gentle but insistent current leading to down a waterfall. We can all see it coming up, but paddling doesn't seem likely to help, and yet that is the only way to buy hope. Most Bond villain plays will be made for life jackets on the way down IMO
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When you are in the 'why do anything' frame of mind, it takes enormous strength to do 'something'.
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huh this is the opposite impression I have. Wars, markets breaking, inflation, AI/crypto progress
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Holy shit. Yes. This. I’ve never felt such a big gap between “feeling I want a big change” and “any impetus from myself at all.”
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