I want to run with this on ambitious ppls careers. To an extent, the middle is ignored by young founders / students because they believe their game will be like others’ games, and they can just trace their steps. Fortunately, not true at least in the founder case. You can probably bottleneck smash your way to a big tech job if you star early enough
Ended up extending this across doing all hard things. I call it “Stats-as-a-Gospel”. The idea that sadly, young people believe the world is both measurable and immutable, and we only have as much control to choose where we throw the dice, not over our outcomes.
"Today the median grandmaster game spends maybe five percent of thinking time on the opening. The first twenty-five, thirty moves have become recitation, blitzed at speed, both players rushing to reach the endgame."
I see this extended everywhere. I talked to a climate scientist recently and their answer to everything was 'ban fossil fuel usage', and every question that I had about how was skipped over and taken straight to endgame. It really contributes to political and idealogical polarization, I think. The details and the feasible practicalities have a way of normalizing polar ideas to a realistic middle ground.
“Play the game. Burn the clock.” is a beautiful conclusion.
I wonder how much game theory studies would impact / self-correct this distortion., and how much of end game play is just intellectual laziness.
I want to run with this on ambitious ppls careers. To an extent, the middle is ignored by young founders / students because they believe their game will be like others’ games, and they can just trace their steps. Fortunately, not true at least in the founder case. You can probably bottleneck smash your way to a big tech job if you star early enough
Ended up extending this across doing all hard things. I call it “Stats-as-a-Gospel”. The idea that sadly, young people believe the world is both measurable and immutable, and we only have as much control to choose where we throw the dice, not over our outcomes.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/188150044
"Today the median grandmaster game spends maybe five percent of thinking time on the opening. The first twenty-five, thirty moves have become recitation, blitzed at speed, both players rushing to reach the endgame."
Okay this is completely untrue dude.
I see this extended everywhere. I talked to a climate scientist recently and their answer to everything was 'ban fossil fuel usage', and every question that I had about how was skipped over and taken straight to endgame. It really contributes to political and idealogical polarization, I think. The details and the feasible practicalities have a way of normalizing polar ideas to a realistic middle ground.