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description: "When a revolution of the magnitude of AI emerges, this anxiety is amplified—because it makes people feel "this time is different, missing out this time means being permanently left behind."But in the middle to late stages of every technological revolution in history, there have been people who convinced themselves with the same words to go all-in on the final stretch, only to be buried.People in March 2000 also thought, "The internet will definitely change the world, picking the right one means stepping up, missing out means a lifetime."They weren't wrong—the internet did change the world—but many of those who bought at the peak of Cisco, Nortel, and Lucent never broke even in their lifetime."The trend is right" and "buying at this position can make money" are two different things. Confusing these two is the most dangerous product of this anxiety."
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# When a revolution of the magnitude of AI emerges, …


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## Comments (3)

- **J.P. Yangan · 2026-04-22T22:47:08.000Z**: Here's a counterintuitive fact: the biggest beneficiaries of the internet revolution were either not listed at all or had just gone public around 2000. Amazon fell 90% in 2000 and was considered a junk stock at the time; Google didn't IPO until 2004; Facebook went public in 2012. The people who trul
  - **J.P. Yangan** (2026-04-22T22:51:36.000Z): Build positions in batches, always keep some ammunition.Don't mix the anxiety of "what if I miss out" and the risk of "what if I buy the wrong thing" in the same account; accept "m
  - **J.P. Yangan** (2026-04-22T23:00:56.000Z): During the 2000 internet bubble, everyone was discussing "picks and shovels" companies like Cisco, Lucent, and Nortel. At the application layer, the talk was about Yahoo and AOL. The eventual