Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes

Switching from goals to systems that make you a winner every day sounds like some happy-clappy sophistry, but it’s one of the best strategies we have for resisting the Siren song. The defining feature of modernity is that we’re being pushed towards short-term hedonism, at the expense of long-term flourishing. Our feedback loops are hopelessly laggy

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Many young people default to tracked behaviors where they choose the safer, consensus “next step” over and over again They keep pushing decisions further out into the future, then get into their mid-30s and have no idea how they ended up where they are. Society must also encourage people to be “spikey” instead of only encouraging people t

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