Andrei Stoica

A huge amount of what Cowen did seemed to be encountering other people, and I was often unsure whether this was out of eagerness to learn from them or a more basic need for human contact. Most of Cowen’s good friends seem to be colleagues from George Mason. Some acquaintances I spoke to were in awe of Cowen, but unsure why someone hellbent on... See more

Americans as a whole will be frustrated and enraged if they understood just how much NEPA and other regulations are weaponized by progressives to block the government from getting anything done. Therefore the only battles the “power” faction can hope to win are internecine fights against the abundance faction. And so, a bit like the leftists with... See more

"Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within."

- José Ortega y Gasset

NYC tech’s newest symbol of peak status is a studio space built around a creative collective. The current wave of VCs & founders are running their businesses out of “Brooklyn-based studios” and investing in “the art of company building” predicated on taste. It’s all connected

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In Sarah Schulman’s book The Gentrification of the Mind , she laments, “Will everything (books, music, pornography, education, movies, friendship, camaraderie, love, and television) all be free if they’re consumed online and prohibitively expensive to experience in person?” She wrote this in 2012 and may not have anticipated how much further that... See more