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      <title>Shurik&#039;s Static</title>
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    <title>Schlep Blindness</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  The most striking example I know of schlep blindness is Stripe, or rather Stripe’s idea. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The answer to all of the problems is all of the solutions</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  The key insight about civilizational challenges is that no single domain’s solution - whether economic restructuring, educational reform, media transformation, governance overhaul, parenting evolution, or environmental protection - can adequately address our meta-crisis alone. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>You cannot connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them backwards.</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ www.youtube.com/watch. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>bootstrapping</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  _ bootstrapping_ means use what you build to boost your own effectiveness – it’s the expectation that anyone working on an important aspect of boosting our Collective IQ capability will seriously push the envelope through their own experimental usage of their work product(s) (see About Bootstrappin... ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>dangerous professional</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  Being a Dangerous Professional means communicating in what might be a slightly adversarial context in a way which suggests that a bureaucracy take one’s concerns seriously and escalate them to someone empowered to resolve them swiftly. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>most competitions follow exponential distributions</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  Most competitions follow exponential distributions, and when you’re on the tail of an exponential distribution, the difference between the 99th &amp; 99.9th percentiles is bigger than the difference between the 50th &amp; 90th percentiles. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>the recipe for genius is to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ See the essay, bus ticket theory of genius by Paul Graham If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Turning it Off &amp; On Again</title>
    <link>https://notes.maskys.com/The-Unreasonable-Effectiveness-of-Turning-it-Off--and--On-Again</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ There exists a piece of technical advice so ubiquitous it’s become a cultural touchstone: “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” It’s the punchline of IT jokes and—perhaps surprisingly—one of the most profound insights into complex systems ever distilled into everyday language. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The opposite of a great truth is another great truth</title>
    <link>https://notes.maskys.com/The-opposite-of-a-great-truth-is-another-great-truth</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ "The opposite of a simple truth is a lie. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth." Here are a few of those I like. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Tools for Thought Reading List</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ These are the resources I’ve personally read and would recommend, in no particular order. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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