I like the “More Grasshopper, Less Ant” analogy, but it wasn’t really covered outside of the section title. Was this referring to taking big leaps and being surprised at the net benefits of being ambitious, instead of meandering along conforming predictable routines and subroutines like an ant?
I assume this is referring to the ancient fable “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, which is about what we would today call time preference. In the original, the high-time-preference grasshopper starves because it didn’t spend the summer stockpiling food for winter, while the low-time-preference ant survives because it did. Of course, alternate interpretations have been common since then.
I like the “More Grasshopper, Less Ant” analogy, but it wasn’t really covered outside of the section title. Was this referring to taking big leaps and being surprised at the net benefits of being ambitious, instead of meandering along conforming predictable routines and subroutines like an ant?
I assume this is referring to the ancient fable “The Ant and the Grasshopper”, which is about what we would today call time preference. In the original, the high-time-preference grasshopper starves because it didn’t spend the summer stockpiling food for winter, while the low-time-preference ant survives because it did. Of course, alternate interpretations have been common since then.
Yes, that’s correct, I was referring to the fable. I should probably have included a broader hint about that.
Yes because the grasshopper in an alternate history does the ant strategy and gets eaten by a bird before they can enjoy surviving the winter.
Or huddles in misery all winter, eating stored food, only to die of aging right before spring.