Yield

I have been in the city long enough to be opinionated.

Buildings on themselves are useless. People on themselves are useless. The most important things are abstract.

Recurrence perhaps is useless as well. Life is a numbers game, a math equation by all means. The more exposure, the more likelihood. More exposure to dangerous places, more likelihood to get killed. More exposure to youth centers, more likelihood to get laid. You get the idea. But this is not enough.

Recurrence should be enforced structurally, but only on people who are likely to yield something back. Recurrence at the void is recurrence at the void. The suggestion to become a regular is a favorite one of AI, it is however flawed. Recurrence is to be enforced on the right audience, and people sort themselves on the very first minutes.

It is my opinion that traveling on itself is useless. Novelty is good but it wears off. What does not wear off is a constant, structural exposure to new people. Think FH, the social meetups I arranged back in Rome. It worked, just slowly. I was right and I am always right, it seems to be the case. New cities get things rolling cuz mapping gets rolled and it forces contact. But I am afraid to say it is by a very large margin a lie, an illusion. First time in a club is fairly useless, I am afraid to admit. Meeting as equals—ah! What a foul suggestion. I am not an equal. These people they've lived all their lives locally, grown roots all the way down, I am not an equal, I am a visitor, a promoter, a marketer, an extractor. I need people as rootless as I am, and I need to manage their growing.

One should never ask for anything unless the ask is rhetorical. The stage should be arranged so that only the desired path can follow. Triumph by logic. Life is a math problem. I have tried this and it works. Familiarity is a sunk cost. You just need people chill enough to invest early. Early investors are the best, they will buy chunks of the idea, and after that initial bite it is hard to get out. I hate people who can afford to think.

One needs complete mapping. Not shallow, not surface. Complete mapping of every cluster in a city. If you can't do that then everything is useless, meaningless, and wrong. It is universally wrong, like killing all maritime species, it is that sad. Time is finite and my patience is even more. Every city has potential, it should be squeezed until it returns everything. Everything in sight. A flattening of the territory.

By cluster I mean the desired segment of the population. By mapping I mean get to know them. To get to know people you need to be with them in a place, for thirty minutes at least, they there by choice. People want things and so you are to promise everything. Every conceivable excuse to meet them every day at every hour. Everything offered, so that everyone comes. Then, grab a few nodes and start producing. Delivering is to be furiously pushed forward the way people scream when drowning. But this is to be dealt with when the need arrives.