2-1b4 Not fighting can win you the battle

This is where Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger meet Marc Andreessen—get out leaking boat fast and avoid parade-tiptoe problems.

Related:

• 2-1b2b ‘Second-order thinking’ - Solve the root cause of a problem (prevention) and not symptoms. Be smart-lazy.
• 2-2c ‘Tragedy of the commons’ - Also look for negative lollapalooza effects (‘devolution’)
• 5-2 What counts cannot be counted
• 5-3 Don’t fight. Transcend.
• 13-4 Time is scarce because action involves choosing one thing over others

From Balaji Srinivasan:

• The US was the least devastated by WWs

  • Led to its dominance during 20c
    • Led to its comparative advantage and its Golden 50-60s
  • Similar to England during religious revolution

• Iran and BRICs won the Iraq war, not the US

• The Second Cold War

  • The answer (e.g., for India) is to ignore American hysteria: delay and avoid rushed decision (don’t be like the EU with Ukraine)
    • Bipolar America
      • 10-1a3a The US doesn’t want you to remember what happened recently
        • They want you to be ‘at present’
          • The opposite of: 4-1a4b2b1 ‘One-of-those’ over one-off - Learn from history (not just from your ‘own’ experience)
      • BLM
      • MeToo
      • Ukraine
      • Taiwan

• The whole human right thing is just declaration of supremacy

  • The West supremacy
    • Avoid them at all cost
      • It’s like the Pope rankings
        • Rethink of ‘Harvard rankings’