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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![Chris Lakin @chrislakin
I became a bounty hunter! But instead of hunting outlaws, I hunt the biggest bottlenecks to thriving.
For example, Bob was bottlenecked by lifelong anxiety. So he offered a $3k bounty to resolve it. We resolved it in a single conversation.
[Screenshot of Venmo iOS notification: Bob paid you $3,000 - made me more emotionally secure]
4:05 PM · Sep 11, 2024 · 502.2K Views](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FgLV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae569de8-26e8-4cbb-94e3-be817e9005a7_1054x996.png "Chris Lakin @chrislakin
I became a bounty hunter! But instead of hunting outlaws, I hunt the biggest bottlenecks to thriving.
For example, Bob was bottlenecked by lifelong anxiety. So he offered a $3k bounty to resolve it. We resolved it in a single conversation.
[Screenshot of Venmo iOS notification: Bob paid you $3,000 - made me more emotionally secure]
4:05 PM · Sep 11, 2024 · 502.2K Views")
