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“Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die. You have committed your life to making money to pay for your past.”

— Kent Nerburn, Simple Truths: Clear & Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

I won’t say who because I didn’t check on the publishing front when we were chatting, but by their own empirical evidence, a Lemaire bomber jacket won’t get you into Berghain but a Bottega (unbranded, unmarked) one will.

So next time you feel envious about someone, consider asking yourself:

• Is this my game to play? (does anyone need more carousels about Patagonia's strategy?)


• What's the opportunity cost of playing it? (more time doing X means less time doing Y)


• Why should i play it like they are? (play at the cross-section of what works for the market and your mind)

Today, if Varoufakis is to be believed, we are up against powerful feudal lords of big tech companies and corporations who have decoupled power from capital; they control not only the factories and farms, but the means to transfer money, and they mediate your access to the rest of humanity. They can de-platform you. They can de-bank you. UnitedHeal... See more

In their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan compare over 300 violent and non-violent struggles in the 20th century to conclude that non-violent civil disobedience is about twice as effective as armed revolution.

A phrase worth knowing:

“There are hundreds of ways to make mistakes, but only one way to act correctly.” Great advice from N. Sri Ram that reminds us to always do the right thing.

“One of the most satisfying feelings I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person — comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot

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Industrial Tourism and Ensouled Consumption : Industrial tourism is an emerging trend in travel where people visit destination factories and production plants. Sure, people travel to Porsche facilities or the town where their favorite chocolate gets made, but this new form of tourism is about fetishizing something quite mundane.

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VC is a Power Law business which means only a few cos deliver most of the returns - David Clark from VenCap breaks it down with data on 11.350 companies from 259 funds from 1986 - 2018. Only 1.1% out of 11,350 cos returned the whole fund!

David Clark responded to my tweet that median fund size for fund returners was $350M and many funds >$1b

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You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.