Startup Upstarts

Communication creates community. The way we communicate forms the types of communities we form: communities where the highest good sought is great entertainment and prestige (“he prepares for those podcasts like none other, and asks banger questions!”) or communities oriented toward the truth and encounters with the real.

The education of the future is going to be an education in sensory perception, and therefore an education in the humanities—especially in the arts—because artistic training is training in how to see, how to perceive, and how to communicate. Even students in business schools will benefit from this kind of training (my colleague Andreas Widmer teache... See more

the finance bro is now in his metamorphosis, offering a few things to the American dating public that they forgot they needed: stability. Predictability. The kind of virility that doesn’t need saunas and cold plunges and dopamine fasts to regulate.

In an ideal world, one’s own personal intuition or radar is the same thing as the force that motivates them.

There are different types of hard work:

1. Outthinking (a better strategy, a shortcut)

2. Pure Effort (working longer, intensity)

3. Opportunistic (positioning yourself to take advantage of change)

4. Consistency (doing average things for longer)

We’re learning to be kind to AI. AI is trained on data that’s packed full of human emotions, so we can expect better performance by treating it with a little more feeling. We’re going to say thank you, experiment with motivational phrases and praise, and test and learn our way to the incentives that get AI to perform most effectively for our work. ... See more

There are also promising cultural and macro shifts supporting a resurgence of entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small businesses.