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This is just a quick thought or note here, it is not so much
about finance or economics, as it is about epistemology.

In finance and economics, there are a lot of different
viewpoints and ideas.  There seems to be a good deal
of emphasis on "getting the correct answer", that is,
if you are able to correctly answer a question from 
a technical perspective, then that is seen as socially
valuable and commendable.

Well, my experience discussing finance and economics
has led me to a different perspective, than when
I first started.  Being technically correct is
indeed nice and encouraging, but it is no substitute
for being proactive and basically just caring about
what happens.  I would rather have someone on my
side who is wrong, but who cares and is open
to new ideas and correction, than someone who
gets every answer correct, but can't be bothered
with other people.

I'm afraid that my attitude has been gradually
shifting towards the latter: to apathy and 
nihilism, almost like an overcorrection of responsibility.

If you try tackle big problems, sometimes this
bites you in the ass.  You may not have the time
or resources to do everything you want, and there
is a tendency to overcorrect with apathy and passivity.

I think perspective and priorities are important.  For
me, I have had to dial back my ambitions to model the 
mathematics of MMT and "post monetary" ideas. After all,
this is currently just a free time project that I want
to turn into something more.  So instead of creating
novel mathematical models of new ideas, I have instead
shifted focus to describing the mathematics of common
well understood ideas, with nothing novel, except the
approach to teaching them and the format for delivery.

Working within common ground, just seems like a better
application of my time and energy, so helping describe
how duration works, or modeling time series of interest
mathematically, have been efforts I have been working on.

The focus is not on being correct with new ideas, but 
being proactive in having conversations and finding common
ground. Expect to see more of this in the future.

A lot of this stuff I hope to publish to my codepen profile:
https://codepen.io/math3737