Two types of reality

Two types of reality: the actual and the self-defined.

Natural laws and historical precedent govern the understanding of the former. Belief and ambition dictate the latter. The latter is indistinguishable from psychosis and delusion. Because by definition it lacks the precedent to be considered reasonable.

That’s why entrepreneurship is, somehow, a factor of production alongside far more tangible ones. It’s a metaphysical wildcard.

Economists got together and basically agreed that, yeah, a billion dollars, a powerful labor force, and a country’s worth of land are worth shit if you lack that dawg in you. Even the Bible agrees. Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” See?

Actual reality is measurable and bounded by physics. Entrepreneurship is the anomaly because it isn’t a physical input at all. It’s an act of willful reality-bending. The real alchemy: transmuting thoughts into reality.

Every time I fly in a plane, see human-made magnificence, or observe powerful systems, I’m humbled that none of it was always there. It first lived in the head of some rando with just the right amount of dawg in him.

Taste, style, ambition, culture, ideas: all intangible, all high-impact. That’s why every country has land, capital, and labor, yet not every country succeeds.

To bend actual reality, define your own and impose it. It takes non-trivial grit, so be ready to go to war for it. With calculated brute-force execution, actual reality collapses and reorganizes itself around you. Your new reality looks like it was always yours.

As Marc Andreessen (@pmarca↗) puts it:
“The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”

Sounds too good to be true. Which explains why 99% never try. Consensus reality is fake. It’s inertia. Reality is not hardcoded. It’s full of undeclared or unassigned variables.

Assign them or code a better reality.