TechScape: How Musk and crypto bros get away with it
In this week's newsletter: Just like Donald Trump's political rise, Tesla's CEO and firms like Tether win by simply not playing by the same rules as everyone else
One of the biggest advantages you can have in life is the superpower of getting away with shit". If you manage to play by different rules from the people you're competing against, you can appear unstoppable.
If you're good enough at it, you can reveal that even deeply foundational rules of the system are, in practice, just guidelines, a gentleman's agreement, or just politeness. The rise of Donald Trump in US politics, for instance, led to half a decade of commentators insisting he couldn't do things that he, in fact, could and did do. (Depending on how you interact with politics, I can direct you to this comment piece or this viral tweet for an elaboration of that argument.)
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