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The 8% historical growth rate story is unraveling

Venkatesh Rao
Feb 04, 2023
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I find myself slipping into reveries more easily lately, and experiencing more false starts when I do, regardless of what I’m musing about. A reverie can’t be wrong as such, since it is by definition a kind of undirected mind-wandering, but it can still fail in the sense of a false start. Instead of gathering strength and coherence and landing on an int…

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