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I certainly believed "things would get busier." But, thought the fact that they'd feel busier was an artifact of time-discounting. i.e. if you can predictably guess that you'll be hella busy in a few years, you should probably be trying to distribute that business as much as you can earlier.
"Crunch Time" is just a phrase meaning "it's hard to continuously motivate yourself at your sustainable peak rate without outside pressure, and eventually there will be outside pressure."
I still think that, but, also, it sure is the case that America started waking up very quickly and there is a lot to do at once, some of which wouldn't have quite made sense to do earlier.
It's interesting to me this has been such a persistent, smouldering news cycle starting with Huggingface incident. It crescendoed, which is not a typical news cycle pattern. Then evidently Coxon had great timing with his resignation letter. Politicians seem to be won over object-level first, not by way of public opinion, which is also not usual. And it's bipartisan, which I think corroborates the object-level-ness of the fear. I don't even know if I can name an issue that was simultaneously high media coverage and with credible bipartisanship in the last, ... (read more)
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.