{"id":668669,"date":"2026-01-06T08:44:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=668669"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:55:39","slug":"playing-for-the-insanely-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/06\/playing-for-the-insanely-long-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing for the insanely long game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK so this is an insanely mega giga brain idea\u2026 Playing for the insanely super turbo long-term game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if you try to plan and structure things, assuming you\u2019re gonna live for the next thousand years or whatever, in our case, let us see the next hundred\u2026 Then, you could start to structure and strategize things for the very very long-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time horizon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I think the tricky thing is, psychologists call this \u201ctime preference\u201d&#8211; There are some people who have a very very long time preference and there are some people who have a very very short time preference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my honest thought, it comes down to optimism, ignoring these cowards and wimps who are too focused on the short term, fake fear porn you see in the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll give an example, if you are the typical person, scrolling social media all day, essentially just waiting for the world to boil over, and collapse\u2026 Certainly there is no incentive for you to save up your money in capital, buy bitcoin, plan on getting married in order to have kids, etc. Rather, you\u2019re probably in a position in which, your positioning yourself to slowly die the least painful death possible. Therefore you try to come out to Zen music and hot yoga, drink $20 soy lattes, stick to mostly \u201cplant based\u201d diet, maybe save enough money to do that yoga retreat in Bali, and maybe get an adopted rescue dog, and you try to \u201clower your carbon footprint\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For myself personally, I separate people into two categories: we wise philosophers who don\u2019t follow the news or social media, do not have Instagram, let alone TikTok which is probably just like a spying device on US citizens and teenagers by mainland China &#8230; and also a new category, somehow these very intelligent, high income earning, tech workers\u2026 Who once again are just waiting for the next iPhone Pro, and still do not understand bitcoin?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ufffc \ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK so this is an insanely mega giga brain idea\u2026 Playing for the insanely super turbo long-term game. 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