So how did I shed my Inceldom? It’s tempting to weave a story of a sudden epiphany sparked by reading Mokyr’s writings, but that wouldn’t be truthful. The reality is less dramatic: I can’t pinpoint an exact moment when the change occurred. It was a slow transformation, influenced primarily by two factors. The first was the Marginal Revolution blog. Witnessing someone as knowledgeable and insightful as Tyler Cowen champion alternative views of our current situation gave me the confidence to trust my instincts, even when it seemed I stood alone. That alone is a testament to the power of ideas. The second one has been starting to Tweet. Tweeting is like a mating song sent into the void, in the hopes of attracting like-minded people. And attract like-minded people my tweeting did. There’s too many of them to exhaustively name, but relevantly to the topic of this piece,
The Works in Progress Newsletterteam really helped me consolidate my current views.