I met an engineer I’ll call Bob at a prediction market conference. “8 years of talk therapy [and] 1 year of actively seeking exposure to scary situations” didn’t do it for him.

Unlearning: “working with you once accelerated this immensely, like 4 years of exposure in 4 hours.” →

Every week I’ve had some new ridiculous, fun, stupid project that I had others rallied around. It's exactly the stuff I pictured doing a long time ago but never really did

UPDATE 12 months: He says he's doing great.

UPDATE 18 months: He says he’s very happy and resilient, has lots of friends (and dates) now :)

To protect Bob’s identity, his voice has been transformed with AI.

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