Comments on: What disruption actually means http://trilema.com/2015/what-disruption-actually-means/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:15:54 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Ok, so what is Bitcoin disrupting ? on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2015/what-disruption-actually-means/#comment-140970 Ok, so what is Bitcoin disrupting ? on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:20:58 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59465#comment-140970 [...] the tails of the What disruption actually means piece I received a lot of quite pointed questions and rather excited entreaties to apply the theory [...] [...] the tails of the What disruption actually means piece I received a lot of quite pointed questions and rather excited entreaties to apply the theory [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2015/what-disruption-actually-means/#comment-111684 Mircea Popescu Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:45:29 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59465#comment-111684 Except irl the "specialization" is merely declarative. Except irl the "specialization" is merely declarative.

]]> By: pletzalcoatl http://trilema.com/2015/what-disruption-actually-means/#comment-111657 pletzalcoatl Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:30:52 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59465#comment-111657 Re people specializing in what they're worst at: one possibility is that this specialization is in the mind of the observer, whereas their "specialist" has merely identified their weakest area and is concentrating on improvement through open, unabashed social usage and testing (this'd preclude specific posturing as described in the article, of course). Then again, I rather doubt this'll seem as possible when I'm fresh from interacting with folks as opposed to being fresh from slumber. Re people specializing in what they're worst at: one possibility is that this specialization is in the mind of the observer, whereas their "specialist" has merely identified their weakest area and is concentrating on improvement through open, unabashed social usage and testing (this'd preclude specific posturing as described in the article, of course).

Then again, I rather doubt this'll seem as possible when I'm fresh from interacting with folks as opposed to being fresh from slumber.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2015/what-disruption-actually-means/#comment-111654 Mircea Popescu Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:14:02 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59465#comment-111654 I'm not sure this holds true for people. It's true of US folk, and only recently at that. I'm not sure this holds true for people. It's true of US folk, and only recently at that.

]]> By: saifedean http://trilema.com/2015/what-disruption-actually-means/#comment-111653 saifedean Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:04:04 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=59465#comment-111653 There's a name for the phenomenon you accurately describe in your first sentence: Rothbard's Law. Like most smart ideas one can come up with today, good old uncle Murray figured it out first: "people tend to specialize in what they are worst at. Henry George, for example, is great on everything but land, so therefore he writes about land 90% of the time. Friedman is great except on money, so he concentrates on money." There's a name for the phenomenon you accurately describe in your first sentence: Rothbard's Law. Like most smart ideas one can come up with today, good old uncle Murray figured it out first: "people tend to specialize in what they are worst at. Henry George, for example, is great on everything but land, so therefore he writes about land 90% of the time. Friedman is great except on money, so he concentrates on money."

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