https://x.com/vancecrowe/status/1973712314911064159?s=61

This talk hits hard.

It’s relevant, It’s prescient, and It makes you uncomfortable in the best way for people that care about growth.

Let it challenge you.

Vance is talking about how to interact with ideas we disagree with by understanding them before dismissing them. This requires mutual respect in an interaction. This process of working to understand is called “Steel Manning.”

As an example, he brings forth the idea that he believes bitcoin is a better investment than ag land. He says young people should “park real money in bitcoin and wait for the land to be able to be purchased by it.”

This is both a great example because it’s controversial to most, but also because he seems to have a good understanding of it, he means it in good faith, and most people will have to learn more before they can agree or disagree.

He follows this idea up by asking people “Can you steal man this idea?”

This is where the follow through on the disagreement needs to happen. Not just here, but many many other places. In our interactions online, With our families, with ourselves. Can you say you will honestly steel man ideas you disagree with?

I’d encourage you to watch the attached talk that can also be found in podcast form and on YouTube.

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