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Megafunds don’t have to win on distributions. Venture perhaps evolves to a point where mathematical return optimization is no longer the edge. When you can own the cap table, capture optionality across product cycles (YC’s obvious play), and crown the kings in a space, you become more than a fund - you are now a meta allocator. Speed, access, and... See more
venture death
The issue is that humans will inevitably seek out ways of finding intimacy and connection with strangers, with people they will never meet. Should we challenge the nation’s role in that process? Or allow it to step into a breach that would otherwise be filled by an ascendant consumer culture, in which identity and belonging are defined by what one
... See moreAlexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
At the same time, in the higher levels of conventional wisdom, originality remains highly acceptable in the abstract. Here again, the conventional wisdom makes vigorous advocacy of originality a substitute for originality itself.
Our learnings on venture funds
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.”
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
In a separate example, each participants get 20 tokens and secretly chooses how many to put into a common pot. Tokens in the pots are multiplied and split evenly among 4 group members. After seeing everyone’s contributions, each player can spend 1 token to deduct 3 tokens from any teammate (“punishment” option).
Research around the world shows that,... See more
Research around the world shows that,... See more
Book review: The WEIRDest people in the world
Our argument is that the path forward will involve a reconciliation of a commitment to the free market, and its atomization and isolation of individual wants and needs, with the insatiable human desire for some form of collective experience and endeavor.
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
In the last decade or so, a few iconoclasts have begun making roads more hazardous—narrowing them, reducing visibility, and removing curbs, center lines, guardrails, and even traffic signs and signals. These roads, research shows, are home to significantly fewer crashes and traffic fatalities.
Packy • Means and Meaning
TALEB
- It hacks our computers → cyber-defense
- It creates a super-plague → bio-defense
- It convinces us (either to trust it, or to distrust each other) → info-defense
eth.limo • D/Acc: One Year Later
Take running. In Simulation and Simulacra , Baudrillard decries it as a Disneyland-like simulacra: “They no longer walk, but they go jogging, etc.” Borgmann, on the other hand, includes running as an example of a focal practice: a sustained and engaging human activity that orients life by fostering competence, excellence, and a way of life that... See more