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another cost of low-trust, polluted info environments is a decrease in decision-making & action velocity when you are forced to engage ur metacognition to parse info, you naturally have to slow down hence why a darkforestization — a return to small, trusted groups — is adaptive

trying to hire someone for your own company/a role where the stakes are real & outcomes matter, and you're not insulated behind a Budget & monopolistic inertia really reveals how shallow the actual pool of people who have agency, can execute, and are self-directed is, wtf

every secret you need to live a good life is within ecclesiastes 11 : 6, it is not more complicated than this

twittr creates a lurker/perpetual consumer trap where endless access to high-signal takes makes it feel futile to put urs out there yet *your* reframe, *your* remixing of tokens, may be what's needed to unlock some1 you don't have to be a top poaster for ur takes to have value

oooh husbant, you were never supposed to ask Grok to list your top 10 mutuals ranked by how likely they are to be a Chinese spy. you're too smart for your own good. i rove you. goodbye.

ppl will instantly discard statements from American govt & officials & assume they're doin misdirection or plain ole lying yet when an adversarial govt issues public statements, many rush to adopt them at face value cognitive security clearly not transferable to ~novel contexts

find it particularly funny how a lot of "The World if X"/"How Society Would Look" utopia memes basically look just like Shenzhen, China

my biggest gripe w psychiatry/therapy culture, is that since it runs on statistical norms, it treats the existence of outliers as proof of pathology if you register as "too" e.g. confident to a shrink, they'll actively try to "humble" & question you they will pathologize your

>mom, how did we get rich? >i asked people to share a piece of lore about themselves on x dot com, the everything app

World War 3 is a guerrilla war for your attention with no division between military, corporate, and civilian participation

a lot of persistent dysregulation is abt desperately holding on & attempting to maintain formerly adaptive but presently obsolete stories abt yourself accepting the truth/"truth" may sting at first but it'll ultimately help soften yr hypervigilance & welcome things as they come

insofar as adhd is an adaptive/coping mechanism in childhood to tune out stress & grapple with emotional overwhelm it serendipitously also ends up being adaptive for a polluted, accelerationist information environment where little to no pieces of information have staying power

effect of accelerationist info environments is that events move too quickly for any book abt them to have any staying power books written abt today's trends become obsolete by the time of publication and tis an opportunity to return to the fundamentals, the old, the time-tested

optionality disease means you keep living your life as a provisional life you never live up to "your" potential bcs you refuse to accept that you simultaneously have to give up on multiple other potentials

all those talking for years about cultivating taste were in the right as building & implementing the first mile gets commoditized and its returns crater the returns to going the last mile will only increase & the only defensible moats become skill, access, and taste