Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The really important stuff is whatever consistently features in interesting + impressive people's world models AND *explicitly not* in the models of sensible but typical people. #1 for me: Grand Central Station is littered with hundred dollar bills. Almost nobody is looking down

There's plenty to do, profitably, within reach of anyone with *any* real competencies. But we have three problems: a problem with observation, a problem with courage, and a problem with multi-generational transfer of competencies. And we lie or tell bad stories about all of these

There's a natural order to these. Courage comes last because, like self-esteem, it's emergent. We want mantras, we buy into "power poses" (failed to replicate) because as we navigate hierarchies built on fake competence, we come to half-believe that competence isn't real at all