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Seems pop culture-ish and anglo centric but kind of interesting (I can't judge or counter though)
why is everything falling apart?"
"
The answer may sound dramatic, but it’s true:
It's not falling apart. It's being torn down.
I get it, though… It feels chaotic.
Financial markets are collapsing , supply chains keep breaking, basically no one trusts anybody anymore.
But this isn't some random crisis. We're in what historians call a "4th Turning" – and we're only about halfway to three quarters of the way through the storm.
Here's how this works:
Every 80-90 years, society resets. The old guard gets swept out and new systems get built.
➡️ 1940s: Depression + World War II
➡️ 1860s: Civil War
➡️ 1780s: Revolutionary War
We entered the "Crisis" phase around 2008. Which means we won't exit until roughly 2030.
Which means, we have another 6-7 years of this intensity ahead of us.
But here's what keeps me up at night:
Most people are preparing for the wrong thing.
They're trying to preserve a system that's already dead: Buying gold, building walls, stockpiling astronaut food and bottled water.
But that’s not preparation, it’s living in denial with what’s really going on.
The clients I work with aren’t trying to save the old world…
They're building the new one.
(BTW, this is why we called our company 5th World, we want to be part of building this new world)
And asking the right questions:
"How do we design systems that get stronger during chaos?"
"What infrastructure will the next economy actually need?"
"Where are the opportunities hiding in this breakdown?"
They understand something crucial:
Every 4th Turning creates massive wealth transfer: From those clinging to the old systems to those building the new ones.
It’s not a matter of whether or not a massive change is coming, we are already in it.
The question is: Are you positioning yourself as part of the solution being built, or still trying to preserve what's being swept away?
Because the people who figure this out first? They don't just survive the transition.
They own it.
P.S. For a deeper dive into this, take a look at the graphic below and read The Fourth Turning by Strauss–Howe. Their book is shockingly accurate!
"
The answer may sound dramatic, but it’s true:
It's not falling apart. It's being torn down.
I get it, though… It feels chaotic.
Financial markets are collapsing , supply chains keep breaking, basically no one trusts anybody anymore.
But this isn't some random crisis. We're in what historians call a "4th Turning" – and we're only about halfway to three quarters of the way through the storm.
Here's how this works:
Every 80-90 years, society resets. The old guard gets swept out and new systems get built.
➡️ 1940s: Depression + World War II
➡️ 1860s: Civil War
➡️ 1780s: Revolutionary War
We entered the "Crisis" phase around 2008. Which means we won't exit until roughly 2030.
Which means, we have another 6-7 years of this intensity ahead of us.
But here's what keeps me up at night:
Most people are preparing for the wrong thing.
They're trying to preserve a system that's already dead: Buying gold, building walls, stockpiling astronaut food and bottled water.
But that’s not preparation, it’s living in denial with what’s really going on.
The clients I work with aren’t trying to save the old world…
They're building the new one.
(BTW, this is why we called our company 5th World, we want to be part of building this new world)
And asking the right questions:
"How do we design systems that get stronger during chaos?"
"What infrastructure will the next economy actually need?"
"Where are the opportunities hiding in this breakdown?"
They understand something crucial:
Every 4th Turning creates massive wealth transfer: From those clinging to the old systems to those building the new ones.
It’s not a matter of whether or not a massive change is coming, we are already in it.
The question is: Are you positioning yourself as part of the solution being built, or still trying to preserve what's being swept away?
Because the people who figure this out first? They don't just survive the transition.
They own it.
P.S. For a deeper dive into this, take a look at the graphic below and read The Fourth Turning by Strauss–Howe. Their book is shockingly accurate!
More Emails to the World
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mini tech talk: asynchronous programming/ concurrency is hard
It's hard because side-effects are hard to predict & communicate, especially when working in teams. "Why is there a mutex lock here?" needs to be documented well and, as we all know, documentation rarely stays up to date. But, we need concurrency to get many tasks done at the same time without waiting for each task in serial.
What if, for many tasks, we could get the benefits of concurrency without having to deal with all of those pesky side-effects? That's the promise of asynchronous programming. This episode dives into the whys, hows, and history of async programming!
https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/episodes/184-asynchronous-programming
What if, for many tasks, we could get the benefits of concurrency without having to deal with all of those pesky side-effects? That's the promise of asynchronous programming. This episode dives into the whys, hows, and history of async programming!
https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/episodes/184-asynchronous-programming
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My parents guilty of this!
haha hard to believe
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still, feeling empathetic
You said you hated the word empathy, that the term was "made up" and "doing a lot of damage".
I disagree deeply with the ideas you were spreading, but thanks to empathy, I could see the traumas, fears and beliefs underneath your egoic discourse and that means I never saw you as an enemy, nor dehumanized you.
In reality, lack of empathy (in you and the fellow that shot you) is what ended up killing you.
That's how important empathy is: it saves lives - and it would have saved yours.
I wish I had a better opportunity to prove you wrong.
Wishing you a smooth journey back to the source - fellow human being.
I disagree deeply with the ideas you were spreading, but thanks to empathy, I could see the traumas, fears and beliefs underneath your egoic discourse and that means I never saw you as an enemy, nor dehumanized you.
In reality, lack of empathy (in you and the fellow that shot you) is what ended up killing you.
That's how important empathy is: it saves lives - and it would have saved yours.
I wish I had a better opportunity to prove you wrong.
Wishing you a smooth journey back to the source - fellow human being.
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insta and 5; zzzbig new code - first test
big new code build - post has three small images
express, not stress