Permanent Assumptions · Collaborative Fund

• Stories are more engaging than statistics. A thousand people dead evokes different emotions than the death of that one person whose story we all know.
• The only thing constant is change, and nothing good or bad stays that way, ever. However, one can never find out what or when the change would be.
• Incentives can make people do good and bad things. While a group of people can be made smarter, they cannot be made more patient, less greedy during uncertain periods.

History is studied wrongly, while we focus on the unprecedented events (The Blips) and use that knowledge as a map of the future.

Instead of studying war and invasions, history needs to be studied upside down, with an emphasis on peace and prosperity.