Andrei Stoica

It’s critical to the mythology of the hero’s journey to establish the origin point, and like many in tech, our hero’s tend to venture West. Many American heroes have this in common.

Searching for folks with differentiating origin points, life journeys, developmental triumphs and failures → will lead us to new archetypes.

The new question becomes:... See more

Interestingly, Hoffer also makes the repeated but less emphasized point that creative people— fulfilled creative people; Hitler was not alone among Nazi leadership in being a failed, frustrated artist—are less prone to subsume themselves in mass movements. Not because fulfilled creative people are smarter or more successful or wiser, but because... See more

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The social sector acts on culture-level concerns in the domain of governance. One example is the sudden mid-20th-century dominance of "historic preservation" of buildings, pushed by organizations like the National Trust for Historic Preservation in America and English Heritage and the National Trust in Britain. Through them, culture declared that... See more