Created: January 09, 2021
Modified: February 22, 2022
Modified: February 22, 2022
gradually, then suddenly
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.- "How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." - Hemingway.
- It can take a long time to lay the foundations for significant change, whether good or bad, and while those foundations are being layed it may appear as though nothing is happening.
- "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
- Formal models: phase transitions, preference cascades.