Reminds me of Meditations on Moloch. “Slack” is anything that you have/want/enjoy that you would not need/want/care about if you were optimized for competition. Which is to say, Slack is any resource you could sacrifice to Moloch for an advantage.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve been thinking about this sort of thing a lot the past few years, and it’s nice to have a concept handle that broadly encompasses buffer money/free time/focused attention/etc, instead of referring to each individually.
Reminds me of Meditations on Moloch. “Slack” is anything that you have/want/enjoy that you would not need/want/care about if you were optimized for competition. Which is to say, Slack is any resource you could sacrifice to Moloch for an advantage.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve been thinking about this sort of thing a lot the past few years, and it’s nice to have a concept handle that broadly encompasses buffer money/free time/focused attention/etc, instead of referring to each individually.