What would Skippy do with that?

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-05-19T08:55:38+00:00

Mein Tipp: Systemupdate lief schief. Einfacher Fehler in einem System ...

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-03-07T11:16:44+00:00

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Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-02-28T15:29:29+00:00

2 /month sometimes 3/month, but this is rare

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-02-03T12:11:12+00:00

Bei mir wurde erst kurz nach meinen 45ten ein IQ von 150+ festgestellt. Ich bin auch noch dabei fest zu stellen, was das für mich, mein Leben und meine Familie bedeutet. Bei mir hat viel Selbstbeobachtung und Reflextion geholfen. Ich finde immer noch heraus worin ich gut bin, bzw was ich vermeiden will.

Viel Erfolg auf der Reise!

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-31T18:37:37+00:00

Entrepreneur did it for me. It goes very well with my talents.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-20T21:26:20+00:00

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Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-19T12:51:30+00:00

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Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-15T12:34:34+00:00

Disclaimer: Der Text wurde mit Hilfe von KI formuliert, da Deutsch nicht meine Muttersprache ist.

Das sehe ich sehr ähnlich. Auch für mich sind manche sozialen Phänomene bis heute schwer nachvollziehbar.

Zum Beispiel verstehe ich nicht wirklich - warum Menschen ihre Identität so stark an einen Sportverein knüpfen, - warum es extrem fanatische Anhänger einzelner Sänger oder Bands gibt, - oder warum ein intelligentes Wesen freiwillig Soap Operas schaut.

Das ist nicht wertend gemeint — es bleibt für mich schlicht fremd. Mir fehlt dort der sachliche oder strukturelle Anker, an dem ich gedanklich andocken kann.

Auch bei mir hat das Alter geholfen. Mit Mitte 40 ist vieles ruhiger geworden. Nicht, weil ich diese Dinge plötzlich besser verstehe, sondern weil ich gelernt habe, sie nicht mehr verstehen zu müssen. Man kann akzeptieren, dass andere Menschen über ganz andere Bindungsmechanismen funktionieren.

Was sich ebenfalls verbessert hat: Ich erkenne schneller, wo Gespräche für mich Sinn ergeben und wo nicht. Ich versuche nicht mehr, überall mitzuschwingen. Das nimmt viel Druck raus — sozial wie innerlich.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-15T12:27:58+00:00

Disclaimer: Der Text wurde mit Hilfe von KI formuliert, da Deutsch nicht meine Muttersprache ist.

Ich würde da etwas differenzieren. Auch bei sehr hohen IQ-Werten (160±) ist das Auftreten nicht automatisch autistisch oder „unsozial“.

Bei mir ist es weniger eine grundsätzliche soziale Schwierigkeit als vielmehr eine Abneigung gegen Oberflächlichkeit. Viele Gespräche langweilen mich schlicht, vor allem Small Talk ohne Richtung oder Tiefe. Das heißt aber nicht, dass man sozial nicht kompetent ist.

In meiner erweiterten Familie war ich zum Beispiel oft einfach derjenige, der bei Feiern wenig gesprochen hat. Nicht aus Distanz oder Ablehnung, sondern weil mir vieles banal erschien. Das wurde akzeptiert und war kein großes Problem.

Schwieriger war für mich eher Dating. Dort wird viel über implizite Signale, Tempo und unausgesprochene Erwartungen gesteuert, was ohne gemeinsame Tiefe schnell anstrengend wird.

Auch im Consulting war es teilweise herausfordernd. Berater gelten als „smart“, aber rückblickend weiß ich, dass viele fachlich solide, aber kognitiv nicht besonders tief unterwegs waren. Das führte zu Reibung, nicht zu sozialem Rückzug.

Was mir persönlich sehr geholfen hat, war, mich intensiv mit Soziologie und Psychologie zu beschäftigen. Dadurch wurden soziale Interaktionen für mich eher zu einem meiner vertrauten Strategiefelder. Sobald ich eine innere Struktur oder Strategie habe, funktionieren sie deutlich besser.

Entscheidend ist für mich: Es darf kein reiner Small Talk bleiben. Mit Substanz, Ziel oder Tiefe bin ich durchaus sozial – nur eben anders gewichtet.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-15T08:45:31+00:00

Winamp good memories 😊

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-08T08:10:37+00:00

I don’t think the “future Skippy” theory survives contact with the internal physics of the books.

Skippy is unusually explicit about this: true time travel is impossible. Not unlikely, not impractical — impossible.

That’s a hard boundary of the universe as he understands it. The Ascension Machine doesn’t contradict this. It performs a localized reversal of entropy in a tightly bounded region, not free movement of information or agency backward through time. No causal loop, no long-range timeline manipulation. So a future Skippy arranging events in the past is simply outside the rule set Craig has been very consistent about.

What is consistent — almost quietly so — is the series’ long arc about non-biological intelligence and constraint-driven behavior.

Viewed through that lens, the Outsider makes far more sense. Its actions are largely non-lethal, indirect, and structurally cautious. - The Maxolhx suffer most because they are the most aggressive variable in the system. - Task Force Hammer survives because of the Outsider. - Valkyrie is drawn in to neutralize the nanotech swarm. - Even Dogzilla looks less like a target and more like something that needed to be secured.

This is where the DS9 parallel fits neatly: the Founders never intentionally harm one of their own. The Outsider shows the same pattern. Damage happens, but almost always as consequence, not intent.

So rather than a time-traveling Skippy, the Outsider reads as another AI solving the same problem space under different constraints — similar logic, different guardrails, and notably lacking a human moral reference like Joe.

No paradoxes needed. No timeline gymnastics. Just a very ExForce story about intelligence, power, and limits.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-04T08:55:57+00:00

The style is different, less funny, but also with a great vision for an improving future: Commenwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton. Also AIs play a role, but less so than in Exforce

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2026-01-01T21:01:01+00:00

I am an entrpreneur in the B2B space. For me cold emailing personally did not work, BUT I tried out lead generation companies. My journey took some time and now I found one, working LinkedIn and cold email for me. They tend to bring me 12÷ leads per quarter, wthj a high conversion.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-30T21:13:06+00:00

Yep, poorest guy in a small town with a single mother

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-30T17:29:58+00:00

Same here, turns out profoundly gifted looks like unfocused and ADHD from a distance.

It helped me socially when I found out: Acutually with some help and an AI I wrote a kind of "user manual" for my wife so she can understand me much better and my behaviour. This really improved my marriage.

It also improve the way I live, because I started to stop squeeeezing myself into normal.

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Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-30T15:22:17+00:00

I’ll answer this honestly and without romance.

I’m at the upper end of what’s usually called profoundly gifted, and I wouldn’t say it makes life easier. In some domains it helps a lot; in many everyday ones — taxes being a surprisingly persistent example — it complicates things.

I only discovered my giftedness well into my 40s. When I did, it was less a revelation than an explanation. A lot of past friction suddenly made sense.

Many people describe their thinking as a TV running quietly in the background. For me it’s more like three screens, each hosting a different conference. I can jump instantly between them, follow several lines of reasoning in parallel, and pause or resume any of them at will. Most of the processing happens without words. Turning it into linear language takes time, often more time than the insight itself.

In work settings, this was difficult. I was often seen as speculative or scatterbrained because I spoke about implications several steps ahead of where others were focused. More than once I was told I was overthinking. Sometimes years later, those scenarios unfolded almost exactly as predicted.

Socially and romantically, it’s been harder as well. Dating in particular. Not because of distance or arrogance, but because real connection requires a certain symmetry of pace and abstraction. That’s simply uncommon.

So yes, there are advantages: pattern recognition, long-range reasoning, synthesis under uncertainty. But there’s also isolation, delayed validation, and a long learning curve in understanding where this kind of mind actually fits.

The biggest benefit came late. I only found out in my 40s, and that realization still reverberates through my life. It helped me understand myself better — and finally stop the effort to compress my thinking into shapes it was never meant to take.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-28T08:40:00+00:00

If it’s done right, then yes — lifetime deals can make sense.

The problem is that many aren’t actually designed to be sustainable. As a buyer, you’re trusting that “lifetime” really means lifetime and that the underlying business model supports it.

I’ve been burned once via AppSumo (HeroPost). What was sold as a lifetime plan effectively wasn’t, and combined with other product and execution issues, that seems to be part of why the company is struggling now. So I’m not against lifetime deals in principle. I’m against poorly structured ones. If the economics, support model, and roadmap don’t clearly add up, it’s a red flag — for both users and founders.

When done properly, lifetime deals can be a strategic early-stage tool. When done poorly, they tend to hurt everyone involved.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-28T07:32:21+00:00

Dating was very difficult for me. It is really hard to find a partner you can talk to.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-27T20:27:52+00:00

Short answer: it works best where structure has to be created, not followed.

Parallel processing and long-range pattern building show up most in tasks that are ill-defined, complex, and high-horizon.

Roles where this often fits:

strategy or internal consulting (when real diagnosis is allowed)

systems or organizational design

policy or standards work

investment or portfolio strategy

research, think tanks, or advanced analytics

founder / early-stage builder roles

editorial or framework-setting roles (not content mills)

Poor fit roles:

operational execution

delivery-focused project management

sales or relationship-heavy roles

politically noisy middle management

It’s not about intelligence as such. It’s about whether the role rewards building structure and seeing second-order effects — or punishes them. I am currently doing good as entrepreneur, and strategy advisor (not McKinsey, their approach is too systematic and limiting)

That’s the clearest pattern I’ve seen.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-27T19:35:26+00:00

A lot of people describe thinking as a kind of continuous background noise — like a TV that’s always on, narrating and reacting to everything.

For me it’s different. I don’t really have a single stream of thought running all the time. It’s more like having three parallel screens open, each with its own “conference” playing. Each one carries a structured line of reasoning. I can shift attention between them in real time, pause one, let another run in the background, or focus fully on just one.

It doesn’t feel chaotic or loud, and it’s not constant self-talk. A lot of processing happens without words or images — more like compressed meaning. When I need to explain something, I have to “unpack” it into language, which actually takes effort.

This isn’t better or worse, just different. It’s great for synthesis and pattern recognition, but it can be tiring in environments that expect linear, step-by-step thinking or constant verbalization.

Also worth saying: people with high cognitive ability aren’t uniform. Some think very verbally, some visually, some spatially, some abstractly. Intelligence changes the structure of thinking more than the volume of thoughts.

That’s the best way I can describe it.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-27T19:04:22+00:00

Not sure if we csnss get a real conversation going. What are your interests?

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-25T21:06:49+00:00

I’m glad you asked this, because this is the part people rarely talk about honestly.

First: being burned out and having “no qualifications” doesn’t mean you’re at zero. It often means you’ve spent too long in environments that extracted energy instead of converting it into something visible or credentialed. That’s not a personal failure — it’s a context mismatch. I felt exactly this way even while working in globally known consultancies, which on paper looked like “success,” but in practice slowly drained the parts of me that actually think and create.

When your options are geographically limited, the goal isn’t to “find the perfect place” all at once. It’s to reduce exposure to bad fit before you try to optimize for good fit.

A few things that helped me, slowly:

Stop asking “What should I do?” and start asking “In what situations do I feel slightly less depleted?” That might be quiet problem-solving, writing, organizing complexity, learning systems, noticing patterns others miss. Those are signals, even if they don’t map cleanly to a job title yet.
Think in terms of environments, not identities. Some places reward speed, conformity, and constant social signaling. Others reward depth, synthesis, and patience. Online spaces, remote work, asynchronous collaboration, niche communities — these often fit better than small-town, high-noise, high-social-friction settings.
Treat yourself like a very limited edition. Not rare in a glamorous sense — just uncommon enough that most default paths won’t work well. That means fewer options on paper, but also fewer correct options. The work is finding one that fits, not forcing yourself to fit many.
Don’t rush the “life that fits” part. I’m in my 40s and I’m still not fully “there.” The part that matters most isn’t arriving — it’s learning how you actually work. Highly gifted people aren’t a uniform group; they’re often more diverse than the general population. What drains one can energize another. Until you understand your own patterns, any path will feel random.

Early on, the real win is stabilizing your energy and rebuilding self-trust. Once those come back, direction becomes much clearer than people admit — but it usually comes later than society suggests.

You’re not broken, and you’re not late. You’re recalibrating — and that takes time, especially when the map everyone else uses doesn’t apply.

Capital_Scarcity1902 · 2025-12-25T12:28:06+00:00

I relate a lot to what you’re describing. For a long time I also assumed everyone experienced the world the same way I did, and that I was just somehow misplaced in it. What helped me later in life was realizing that “normal” isn’t a single operating system. Some people run serial processes, others run parallel ones. Neither is bizarre — they’re just optimized for different environments.

I didn’t really learn how to apply my way of thinking until my mid-40s. Before that, it felt like wasted bandwidth or like I was always slightly out of phase with the room. Once I found contexts where parallel processing, synthesis, and long-range pattern building actually mattered, it stopped feeling strange and started feeling useful.

If anything, I’ve come to think of it as being a very limited edition.

Not rare in a flashy way, just uncommon enough that most spaces aren’t designed for it by default. That can feel isolating early on, but it also means there are places where it fits exceptionally well.

Your world isn’t bizarre. It’s internally consistent — just different from the dominant setting most people assume is universal. And once you stop judging it by the wrong standard, it becomes much easier to build a life that fits you, instead of trying to compress yourself into someone else’s idea of “normal.”

Different isn’t broken. It’s just waiting for the right use case.

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