Zack Kass

Moreover, a lot of leaders grossly overestimate the importance of moonshots and grossly underestimate the importance of incremental gains.

What ends up happening is someone will be like, hey, I can do this 20% more productively.

That's cool.

Why don't we do this?

Now, the tyranny of incremental gains is interesting, which is that a lot of things can't afford incremental gains.

A lot of businesses just need to get 20% better every year for them to become amazing companies.

We actually need healthcare to get 1,000 times more productive.

And so the issue with things like healthcare is the tyranny of incremental gains, which is that actually the current state of affairs is untenable unless we have a radical change.

And the third, which is sort of like this camp of policymakers, policymakers are talking about a lot of things right now, and only three of them matter.

Alignment, explainability, and bad acting.

If you are not talking as a policymaker about alignment, explainability, or bad acting, and exclusively, ideally, those things, then you're probably wasting breath.

And a lot of our policymakers are talking about everything else.

And this destroys the whole narrative and message and means that we can't actually pass the important policy we need to pass because we're too fixated on basically everything else.

And it's why you're going to see this economic K-curve between Europe and the United States, where Europe has basically sprinted to policy this stuff without actually asking what are the consequences.

Well, okay, so we wrote a newsletter recently called the Adaptability Trap.

There is such an incredible emphasis right now placed on adaptability.

And I think it's doing a disservice to people because for the reason you just described, ask your friends, who is your least favorite friend?

And you don't have to write it out, but who's your least favorite friend?

And almost always people's least favorite friend, again, this is not someone you know, this is your friend.

It's someone who is infinitely adaptable.