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Make a bigger mess. I want it.

Hey you! I've read the blog. It's magnificent. I looked at your garden. It's incredible. Love love love. Live, laugh, love. Cheers.

A+

As long as your aim is better than Dick Cheney's everything will be alright.

Quitting something addictive is never that easy. You'll be back in less than a week. I wonder if you'll even last 24 hours.

That's what happens when you stack risk. The whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

You'll be back on those platforms soon enough. That's the pattern.

They would be aroused by your unpublished writing?

None. My initials could also stand for the phrase Can't Code.

But the chaos created is for whom?

Hey, your username reminds me of the statistical measure called p-value. I hope Save All will help people beat the odds and cast off the shackles of the power law as it's applied to the act of learning.

Will do. You keep iterating too!

Exactly. The sun also rises.

And what a game changer that was.

I think there's a one-in-one chance of what you say happening because it's already started.

Will keep that in mind for the next times. Keep iterating, right?

You can't spell obsequious without the letters I, O, U.

Hey stranger. Waves

> Feels bad but can't seem to do much else.

> I don't feel bad. I don't care.

???

You seem smart. You do you.

Honestly, option A sounds as good as option B. Either way, I'm feeling an even keel 7/10. Not a bad outcome for choosing to be rational.

By the way, if you're neither violent, nor criminal, and only sometimes a liar, you're doing better than 90% of the population. Ninetieth percentile is nothing to scoff at. Unless, of course, this very statement of yours is you lying, in which case, you're not really in the club. Are you even as smart as you claim?

If I were in the shoes of the person you describe, I wouldn't feel bad. So don't feel bad. Or do. I don't care.

Near/far/wherever you are...

Character is destiny. You were always the villain. Guess how that goes?

And even if it broke, don't (can't) fix it.

Exaxtly. It's only mind-games.

Yes, maybe the next Substack article will be the blog that saves you. Maybe it'll tell you how to free yourself from the checkmate that fate has you in.

I once read a description of risk like so: slowly at first; then, suddenly. If you thought things were bad, it's only going to get worse at an increasing rate.

Let's play a (squid) game of best-case scenario/worst-case scenario. Let's say you study a new subject up until the point that you feel the diminishing returns were no longer worth your effort. So like a one-trick pony, you create something using your limited knowledge and put it on the market, ready for sale.

The best-case scenario is you've made a lot of money with a little effort. The worst-case scenario is you made nothing but you also lost only a bit of your time. That's actually a decent outcome. At least you validated your efforts quickly by shipping early.

Now, let's say you put yourself in a position where the best-case scenario is you live to see another day and maybe make a bit of money on the side. The worst-case scenario is you get a criminal record and go to prison for a bit. All of a sudden, you feel under-prepared for the situation using the limited knowledge you acquired. That's a classic case of being over-leveraged.

I once knew a successful investor. The way he made successful trades was through thorough investigation and careful decision making. He wasn't a workaholic, but you could describe him as assiduous. He would never slack on his duties, and then tell himself, "the money will come". I think no one with a proven track record would say that, unless he's enslaved to some ponzi scheme.

You see, restricting your studies by the power law means a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. This is especially true if you're prone to risk-taking behavior. But even as I say this, I fully understand, the crucial pattern I've seen truly successful people apply will go in one ear and out the other.

Essentially, by forming this group of get-rich-quick community, you've filtered for peers who fail to understand the consequences of their actions, even as the evidence is piling up around them.

Did you know that as the Titanic was sinking, some of the passengers wouldn't accept the facts as they appeared before them?

Because we have to live out our destinies. What don't you get? Mutual assured destruction was promised, and it will be delivered. It must be delivered.

Rationally, of course. You're free from something that undermines your clarity every waking moment of the day.

Why would I care what anyone thinks?