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In one of my favorite essays, Choose Good Quests , Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner write about the moral imperative for founders who’ve gained experience, resources, and connections building easier companies early in their careers to use their experience, resources, and connections to tackle really ha... See more
In one of my favorite essays, Choose Good Quests , Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner write about the moral imperative for founders who’ve gained experience, resources, and connections building easier companies early in their careers to use their experience, resources, and connections to tackle really ha... See more
Packy McCormick • The Gang Captures Washington
Girard discovered that we come to desire many things not through biological drives or pure reason, nor as a decree of our illusory and sovereign self, but through imitation.
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio Garcia Martinez • 1 highlight
amazon.com
He suggested that the illusion of freedom—the idea that every entrepreneur is a master of their own desire—is dangerous. “Founders are the worst,” he said. “There’s a Randian—I must be the John Galt—feeling. You can be as liberated as you want, but there’s a web of connectivity, and they forget.”