So much of current pervasive hustle culture is people afraid to even have a vision for their own life outside of capitalist social reproduction, let alone fail at something - “since I was a child all I’ve ever wanted was to enter, and indeed win, several rat races”
To say mathematics is about what follows from the axioms is roughly equivalent to saying that programming is what follows from assembly instructions - not wrong, but empty
"A globally connected electric grid would yield synergetically greater environmental and economic benefits than the sum of its nation-state parts operating in isolation could." - sammatey.substack.com/p/the-weekly...
A World Grid is being built, the long journey of American offshore wind, farmers' markets in Boston, and more!
We tell ourselves stories in order to theorize about the world
"If you think an economy in which price discrimination is normalized can be efficient, then you think Hayek's work is obsolete." - drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/08/18/m... Hayek's knowledge problem applies to corporate price discriminators just as well as to state central planners