[op03]

>> I still feel slightly excited to learn new skills

What you learn at work during crisis can be very valuable. Especially with unexpected events that people up and down the food chain, don't know how to handle. It's like being a fly on the wall while watching things break down at Jurassic Park. Its not fun if you are in a position of responsibility, but if you are not and an observant kind, there is lots to learn watching a system break down and reboot.

There is always another crisis around the corner where you can apply lessons learnt. The world is getting a whole lot more complicated compared to what our small brains can handle, thanks to hyperconnectivity and info exploding, so expect a whole lot more weird ass black swan events ahead.

If you have been in the deep end and not just survived but seen good outcomes, it makes a very big difference to how you handle the next crisis, what you think you are capable off, what to look for when picking teams etc.

[pietroglyph]

> There is always another crisis around the corner where you can apply lessons learnt. The world is getting a whole lot more complicated compared to what our small brains can handle, thanks to hyperconnectivity and info exploding, so expect a whole lot more weird ass black swan events ahead.

I’m curious, do you mean that there will be more black swan events due to hyperconnectivity and they’ll be weird, or that there’ll be the same number of black swan events but they’ll be weirder due to hyperconnectivity?

I understand the reasoning behind the latter, but if it’s the former I would be interested to hear why hyperconnectivity results in more black swan events.

[op03]

I see the current hyperconnectivity state as similar to what happens in human babies brains. They are much more hyperconnected than the adult brain.

To the Baby everything is a black swan event. The more connected we get we revert to that state where info is flooding in (similar to the brain on lsd etc). The ability to handle that load/decide what to focus on/what to filter out hasn't yet developed (and requires a culling of connections as we learn). Much like the baby bumbles about precariously in that state, similar story is playing out with our networked hive mind.

Everything is mesmerizing or frightening until we learn to cull the connections and reduce the hyperconnectivity

Based on Allison Gopniks work - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-it-like-t...

https://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-k...