Built The Great Stagnation.

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…How about the cadence of the output? Alex, are you ever tempted or inspired to publish more frequently? Or Tyler, have you ever thought about doing twice a week? Or what’s that about the difference? No, I have no plan on changing. I think one thing I try to do in many of my posts is to mix moods. I presented this notion of mood affiliation. People are optimistic or pessimistic, or they have their loyalty to the mood, and that’s usually a cognitive mistake. I found if you mix moods in a post, you can say things that are entirely correct, and people will just get angry. They’ll think you’re confusing them, you’re messing with their minds. This is deliberate, but I think it’s trying to teach people a lesson. I wrote the book The Great Stagnation. The title Great Stagnation, okay, but the whole last chapter of the book is about how we’re going to get out of it. All these wonderful breakthroughs will be coming because of the internet. No one ever mentions that last chapter. They only take one mood away from a book. I’m happy with the post if I feel I’ve sent mixed moods, and what I’m saying I think is true, and it’s going to bug people and confuse them, then I’m like, “Yes.” [laughter] Interesting. It reminds me of the post that I wrote last week on WorldCoin, where I think —…

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