Andrei Stoica

Every young person (and plenty of non-young people), trying to strike gold and solve problems, is architecting themselves after a dominant personality of our field.

These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of... 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

Selfhood in humans is not the expression of any central unity. We are programmed to perceive identity in ourselves, when in truth there is only change, We are hardwired for the illusion of self.

- John Gray, as quoted by Tim Carpenter in To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die

Marx believed that the capitalist market economy was incapable of delivering an acceptable distribution of income for anything but the briefest of historical intervals. ...But "incapable" is surely too strong...[S]ocial democracy, progressive income taxes, a very large and well-established safety net, public education to a high standard, channels... See more

"Civilizations with long nows look after things better," says Brian Eno. "In those places you feel a very strong but flexible structure which is built to absorb shocks and in fact incorporate them."1 You can imagine how such a process could evolve—all civilizations suffer shocks; only the ones that absorb the shocks survive. That still doesn't... See more