Brian Klaas

So when you think about stuff where on a personal level, you don't have control. It's the stuff where it's all about external validation, for example, what other people do in reaction to how you behave. If you have intrinsic motivation, things like passion, things like intellectual discovery, things like exploring the world, it's not contingent on how somebody else reacts to you.

So when you think about stuff where on a personal level, you don't have control. It's the stuff where it's all about external validation, for example, what other people do in reaction to how you behave. If you have intrinsic motivation, things like passion, things like intellectual discovery, things like exploring the world, it's not contingent on how somebody else reacts to you.

It's just the thing itself. And that's more resilient. So when I think about what I've done with my own life, I do spend more time with things that have intrinsic and immediate value to me, like going out into nature, like traveling with a sort of an eye for exploration, like walking my dog because I like walking my dog.

It's just the thing itself. And that's more resilient. So when I think about what I've done with my own life, I do spend more time with things that have intrinsic and immediate value to me, like going out into nature, like traveling with a sort of an eye for exploration, like walking my dog because I like walking my dog.

It's just the thing itself. And that's more resilient. So when I think about what I've done with my own life, I do spend more time with things that have intrinsic and immediate value to me, like going out into nature, like traveling with a sort of an eye for exploration, like walking my dog because I like walking my dog.

And the sort of periods where I've felt worst often have been when I've put something out in the world and someone has said something horrible about it, and I've put all of my eggs in the sort of external validation basket. That's where I both don't have control and I'm ceding my well-being to other people.

And the sort of periods where I've felt worst often have been when I've put something out in the world and someone has said something horrible about it, and I've put all of my eggs in the sort of external validation basket. That's where I both don't have control and I'm ceding my well-being to other people.

And the sort of periods where I've felt worst often have been when I've put something out in the world and someone has said something horrible about it, and I've put all of my eggs in the sort of external validation basket. That's where I both don't have control and I'm ceding my well-being to other people.

So I sort of think that that's one of the areas where society as a whole has not learned this lesson as well because the sort of hyper-optimized social systems that we have where everything is about short-term payoff, you've got to hit your quarter three targets and so on, that short-termism is good for efficiency. It's bad for resilience.

So I sort of think that that's one of the areas where society as a whole has not learned this lesson as well because the sort of hyper-optimized social systems that we have where everything is about short-term payoff, you've got to hit your quarter three targets and so on, that short-termism is good for efficiency. It's bad for resilience.

So I sort of think that that's one of the areas where society as a whole has not learned this lesson as well because the sort of hyper-optimized social systems that we have where everything is about short-term payoff, you've got to hit your quarter three targets and so on, that short-termism is good for efficiency. It's bad for resilience.

It's bad for anticipating shocks that might come because the world is changing rapidly and is deeply uncertain.

It's bad for anticipating shocks that might come because the world is changing rapidly and is deeply uncertain.

It's bad for anticipating shocks that might come because the world is changing rapidly and is deeply uncertain.

Yeah, so one of the examples I use is a case where a Latin American country was looking at different proposals for an electrical grid. And one version of the proposal was hyper-efficient and way cheaper, and it was a single national grid. The second version had these sort of decoupled nodes at the regional level. So if you had a blackout in one area, you could sort of isolate it, right?

Yeah, so one of the examples I use is a case where a Latin American country was looking at different proposals for an electrical grid. And one version of the proposal was hyper-efficient and way cheaper, and it was a single national grid. The second version had these sort of decoupled nodes at the regional level. So if you had a blackout in one area, you could sort of isolate it, right?

Yeah, so one of the examples I use is a case where a Latin American country was looking at different proposals for an electrical grid. And one version of the proposal was hyper-efficient and way cheaper, and it was a single national grid. The second version had these sort of decoupled nodes at the regional level. So if you had a blackout in one area, you could sort of isolate it, right?

But it was way less efficient and way more expensive. Now, they went with the second option, the less efficient option, and the first blackout that happened, it paid for itself. Now, if you were analyzing that choice purely on the basis of short-term profits, short-term efficiency, and so on, you would never have made that choice.

But it was way less efficient and way more expensive. Now, they went with the second option, the less efficient option, and the first blackout that happened, it paid for itself. Now, if you were analyzing that choice purely on the basis of short-term profits, short-term efficiency, and so on, you would never have made that choice.

But it was way less efficient and way more expensive. Now, they went with the second option, the less efficient option, and the first blackout that happened, it paid for itself. Now, if you were analyzing that choice purely on the basis of short-term profits, short-term efficiency, and so on, you would never have made that choice.