This is the most profitable one for media companies. A single event happens (a bank fails, a virus mutates, a crime spikes in one city) and within 48 hours, the massumption is that the entire system is collapsing . The crowd confuses activity with danger. The Cost of Believing the Crowd Here’s the brutal truth: Massumptions are cognitive shortcuts. Your brain is lazy. It’s easier to look at what 1,000 people are doing than to do the hard work of thinking from first principles.
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But in 2026, we face a bigger, more contagious beast. I call it the . This is the most profitable one for media companies
Imagine a stranger from five years in the future visits you. They know how your story ends. Would they tell you to follow the crowd or ignore it? Time has a hilarious way of revealing massumptions as foolish. The Quiet Revolution The most interesting people in the world are not the ones making new massumptions. They are the ones quietly ignoring the old ones. The Cost of Believing the Crowd Here’s the