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#acknowledgement

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@alstonvicar

#Acknowledgement is so import. I ignored the diagnosis I got 12 years ago at first. And that cost me (and mine) dearly these last two years: during that time I've had two severe depression periods from autistic burnout. Now I am being treated regularly at the hospital, having coaching sessions on a weekly basis and am slowly getting back into work. And you know what I've realized ? At 54, I still have a long way to go...

@actuallyautistic @transponderings @Dr_Obvious @vger

"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil Dash

It's important to remember, nobody becomes a billionaire by accident. You have to have wanted that level of power, control and wealth more than you wanted anything else in your life.

They all 👉 sacrifice family, relationships, stability, community, connection, and belonging in service of keeping score on a scale that actually 👉 yields #no #additional real-world #benefits on the path from that first $100 million to the tens of billions.

👉 So you have a cohort that is, counterintutively, #very #easily #manipulated.

If you have access to a billionaire (and 👉 billionaires all have access to each other, because it suits their ego to think of each other as peers), most are very easy to program by simply playing to their #insecurity and desire for #acknowledgement of #exceptionalism, 👉 and so they push each other further and further into #extreme #ideas because their entire careers have been predicated on the idea that they're genius outliers who can see things others can't, and that their wealth is a reward for that imagined merit.

anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qan

www.anildash.com"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.