Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Time horizons: Employees, contractors: 1 year (budgets, raises) Entrepreneurs: 18 mo (~ capital cycle) Politicians: 2-6y depending on election cycle Academics: 4-6y (getting tenure, graduating a PhD, grants) Consultants: 4-6 mo (median gig) “Creators”: 1 week (media production) HNWIs: 7y (life project)
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
How do you stimulate an environment where you can cause the HNWI (life project) to be broadly taken up and executed on (with some small percentage of success emanating), without it descending into the ugly outcome of a welfare state? Shor-term-erism on mass is a civilisational version of "hand to mouth"
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Many politicians particularly the closer to national levels get caught in the media spin cycle — day to week horizon
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s3unha
@ho
is there a history to how creators ended up settling on 1 week as a time horizon?
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