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Know the path of a nation by the pettiness of their debates.

If your nation is looking for gotchas against your old colonial masters? Or "senpai noticed me" geopol takes?

Congratulations. You're going nowhere in the near future.
Pettiness is a sign of focus.

If people are petty about performative nonsense? Its pure advertisment. No goals. There's a decline coming.

If people disagree on execution? That's a debate. They have a common cause. Pettiness does happen but it's about how to get a goal.
Pettiness is about popularity. It wants to be loved and respect. Without the work needed for that.

True politics requires legitimacy and power. It puts necessity over popularity, optics, and pettiness.

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Apr 17
The biggest skill you'll learn in your career? Learning to debate

You have to learn to debate other ppl to get an edge in public.

You also have to learn not to debate attention seekers.

The first has to be a polite ratio. You're not trying to convince them.
The polite ratio is big. You have to show teeth. Ppl are testing you. Most of the time ppl are watching.

Trying to convince the ratio'd person is pointless. Or laying too many evidence on them.

The goal is to be to destroy their argument. In eyes of your audience.
Avoid debates if the person is good at counter attacking. Or has enough knowledge or pull to do it.

Dangerous people are good at counter attacking. Then following up. Or dragging you into a long debate.

Don't debate beyond a certain point.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 7
How to find your way and grow stronger in times of chaos:

1. Have a purpose and vision.
2. Look at reality. Let ppl panic.
3. Find the right people.
4. Snap up resources now.
5. Calm in public. Panic in private.

Gonna break this down.
1. Purpose and vision.

This helps you prioritize. You know what you want. You're less bothered by things. And you know why.

Hard times go from a emotional thought to a factor in your plans.
Annoying people are humored.

Mistakes are measured by the progress towards a goal.
2. Look at reality. Let ppl panic.

90% of what you see on social is a stage play. Same with the news.

Reality is between the lines. What ppl panic about is popular panic.

They'll exhaust themselves too. When real shit goes down? They're exhausted.

Instead panic? Break it down. Know what you control. Do what you can. Leave the rest to heaven.
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Mar 21
Every so often accounts here think multipolar world order = Peace.

Look at the 19th century. That was a multipolar world order. And certainly didn't mean peace.
Most of us only remember the cold war which had bipolar world order. Or post 1991 with a unipolar one.

Unless you were born before 1945? You haven't seen a multipolar order.

Which is why so many geopol assumptions are cold war ones.
Geopol is about balance of power. Same with realpolitk.

With a unipolar power that's non existent. With a bipolar one it's through proxies. With multipolar it's through allies.

The last one is hard. No one alive right now has the diplomatic skill to do it.
Read 4 tweets
Mar 9
Wordcelling doesn't make you smart. Frameworks and theory without experience is dangerous.

Can always tell who in tech never worked with users or businesses.

If you want to win here's how⏬
Get to the point.

Get to it in the first 2 min. It creates a framework for the rest. You need ppl to follow along.

Make sure to think about the interest. No one cares unless it relates to them. Benefits up front.
Don't explain everything.

Engineers and academics suffer from this. Being wordy.

Explaining everything wastes time. It frustrates most ppl.

With a sharp person? You gave them a target to ratio you. Or worse deny you budget.
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Feb 18
The best boss I had was nicknamed Baba Yaga. John Wick 1 had come out.

And that lady did magic with clients and their reluctant dev and data teams.

Didn't force them. Got them admiring her. Here's things she did right

Spoke the language . She could speak in both the tech ppls and business ppls speak. Knew the right words and right questions.

Was constantly learning.

She could code switch. It gave her a lot of power. She could advocate the needs of both sides. And explain their needs.
Strategic Awareness. She constantly spent time both with management and teams.

Networked with both to develop a fingertip feel for issues and problems. Get a feel for their rhythm.

Because of that she could see 4 steps ahead easily. And assessment like nothing.
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Dec 29, 2023
Wordcels miss the big picture, clinging to details as the whole story. They use complex words and long sentences. Its very common tech and politics. They dress up their ideas to hide context. They prey on the idea that hard to understand = smart.

Lets breaking this down.
Overemphasis on Details and Jargon. Wordcels focus excessively on intricate details and specialized jargon. They often miss the broader context or the big picture of the topic at hand. It may make it harder for others to grasp the essence.

When cornered, they attempt to reshift the conversation back to their knowledge. Then turn it into a nitpicking debate over facts, rather than looking at the larger topic.

Example: In a discussion about global trade agreements, a Wordcel might say, "It's imperative to consider the granular specifics of the bilateral trade agreements and their tariff schedules, rules of origin protocols, and antidumping duties rather than the broader implications of global trade dynamics and economic sovereignty."

It has lost the larger conversation. The conversation is needs to be about agreements affect international relations and economic stability.
Excess Complexity. They use convoluted explanations. Explanations do not flow from a definition to relationships. They also do not show how facts fit in a larger conceptual framework.

The goal is to lure you on to a battleground or debate field of their own choosing. They want to give you a headache. And make you think its hard to understand because its "difficult".

Example: In a political debate, a Wordcel might argue, "The candidate's policy is a quintessential exemplification of neo-classical economic orthodoxy, predicated upon a presupposed stratagem of laissez-faire fiscal aggrandizement."

There's no stance here. Only traps to actually you. Which allows the wordcel to steer the conversation.
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