Brandon Marcus

The question “What does it mean?” is essential to reading. Literacy legitimized questioning, an intellectual activity that could not be employed during mechanical repetition after a tradesman or in verbomotor resonance with a storyteller. Questioning the meaning of signs supplied a pattern for questioning the meaning of everything. If orality foste... See more

Are we proceeding to a new kind of economic reality, one that mirrors the changes in media that happened over the last 20 years? Where the spread of new enabling platforms (Then: the internet, social, mobile. Now: compute, LLMs, robotics) creates new resilience and a new understanding of the economy and relationship between individuals, corporation... See more

What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.

They recognized that fear comes from inexperience, not incapability. You're afraid because you haven't done it yet, not because you can't do it. Inexperience is the problem to be solved, and it's only solved through having the courage to act.

when execution becomes trivial, direction becomes essential.

vibes now override tech merit in the attention economy