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Venkatesh Rao
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This isn’t exactly a rare sentiment these days, but it’s interesting coming from Nicolas since he’s one of the most aggressively pro-US Europeans I’ve met (particularly the SV vision of
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A megatrend hypothesis inspired by several microtrend that I think are related: a) waldenpondingb) rise of heavy duty information management methods like @fortelabs BASB (build a second brain)c) conversational media
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The virus is the first interesting post-historical supervillain If we can beat it, history will restartIf not it’s end-of-history reruns for the rest of time It’s kinda funny how people
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The social permissioning effects of Trump on frontline psychopaths in federal agencies is far worse than anything he’s personally complicit in. He’s not imaginative enough to be involved in anything
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Next pandemic live read. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steilhttps://www.amazon.com/Marshall-Plan-Dawn-Cold-War/dp/1501102370 Story starts with FDR’s vision for One World post WW2 dying with him, and Stalin
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So... meta thread on unit economics. In LA, pre-Covid average rates were like $3/sf so a 1000 sf space would be 3k. I’d guess many of these ideas would only
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Doubt-impedance matching. To persuade smart people, you have to start from a posture of genuine doubt that matches theirs and work both of you into belief together. Belief is a
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I think I’m circling a concept you could call stack survivalism, as opposed to regular fully off-grid survivalism. Where you plan against scenarios of various sorts of non-robustness and jankiness
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The longer I spend online, the more true this feels. A big consequence of social atomization is that increasing numbers of people lack a sense of how their thinking stacks
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I can’t believe there’s no countermove to the USPS electoral sabotage This is the most depressing thing on my mental radar right now. Feels like I’m back at square
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1/ Let's define civilization as as an aspirational state where there is no need to intentionally cause pain to others to get what you want 2/ If "good" is defined
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In Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age, one of the near-future cultures is Neo-Victorian, and it is rooted in a mix of ironic-but-not-really theater and a self-aware embrace of hypocrisy as a
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