The technique can be interpreted in different ways. One thing that definitely helps is when there’s a strong hype cycle, like with AI, where you’re tempted to build the next “super framework” only to realize that another team may develop it faster and better than you ever could.

I have a friend who worked at an AI company before the current boom, and he once told me something along the lines of: we built several things over the past few years that could now be replaced by the new frameworks that keep appearing.

There is no Venezuela so it's just a win scenario.

I think it's difficult for a normal brain to live with the low impact of another project while you created Google. Also, the speed of a personal developer is nothing compared with the speed of a software engineering area or company. You can easily feel like a turtle even working on an interesting project.

Just guessing but a long term strategy from Xi could be to wait and show that he is different and gain simpathy.

I wonder about the whole world going crazy.

On the other hand companies go to cloud services as if they were scaling and complex as a FAANG.

I imagine how few incumbents can take advantage of prediction markets.

And when applying the law is so expensive.

Law is expensive.

Beyond this, if you are from Venezuela it's difficult to stay in the middle beyond the outcomes, it is completely different when prople talk without living or being an expat.