New Article: You Won’t Survive As Human Capital

As the old institutions continue to crumble, the most independent minds and high-agency private networks will continue to fill the vacuum.

The world is amidst a monumental power shift from Institutions to Individuals — the days when an institution could dictate what you create, when you create it, and how much your creation is worth are over.

There will be future crack-ups and future attempts at radical reform and the possibility of great accomplishments in our time. The current settlement is too sick to be sustainable. But the crucial ingredient that will make the difference will be some new class of elites with a discipline of craft capable of actually achieving the great things you w... See more

We feel paralyzed because we fear that our institutions and leaders are no longer able to operate and the solutions require many to act against their own immediate interests. We strive to make more people and communities capital-efficient and market-friendly even as the water level rises. The logic of the market has overtaken most of our waking liv

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What is capitalism but the overgrown trade union of the idle rich?

We are moving from an era of centralized, bureaucratic value creation firms to an era of decentralized, permissionless value creation networks. As organizational models change, so too will the intangible cultural artifacts created by these new institutional forms. Brands, narratives, memes—we now choose our own headless gods.