Alt theory is you cannot time the zeitgeist. Just do your thing over a long period, like 20y, and simply wait for your moment to find you.
Most people don’t have, and can’t engineer, the freedom to pursue this sort of long game. But you should try to cultivate 1 such activity.
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Long-term projects that don’t meet conditions for agile iteration (zeitgeist has to remain continuously interested enough in your project to provide feedback through the long, crappy beta) need this sort of thinking. The opposite of agile is not waterfall, but internal momentum
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Big public works projects tend to be this way.
Watch Ep 8 of Ric Burns NYC : discusses the deliverance of WTC.
Also this pol sci text identifies "policy windows" that can be black swan news events or sudden political will that gets legislation through.
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there’s a new trump documentary on Netflix detailing his real estate career
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Yep Done loved it and prompted this longshot tweet.
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@PreetBharara Not a legal expert but after watching 7RuMp bio on NFLX, Id like to learn more abt unanimous 7-0 decision by NY Court of Appeals 12/'82 to grant him a $50m tax abatement on construction of Tower on 721-725 5thAv.
I think this emboldened him
leagle.com/decision/19826
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Ha I should have known
3.56 years and I’m still curious to learn Tyler cowens favorite question
What is your production function? How do you do what you do?
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Where there is a hunger, there is food.
I blame this pathology to my 2 years of i-schooling and my lab being next to these guys:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteSeerX
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