Jay Matthews

"I always insist on my agency as a thinker. I have the right to read what I like to read. I think that is actually more radical: to insist that because I have my own mind, I will be influenced by whom I choose, and I will write what I choose." — Ocean Vuong

The example of how we already participate in the gift economy is given with the service berry:

Anonymous work should be both collective and very personal. Everyone should do what they want, as naturally as breathing. But they should have no ulterior motive and wish to sign their breath.

This may be an inverse-U-shaped curve. As you can imagine, very early on, it's a picker's game, meaning, for example, with Pioneer, extremely early. We can pick whoever we want. Very late stage in the cap table, it's also a picker's game. I mean, obviously the company's public for the most part. Hedge funds are in the game of picking, not in the

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Future self-continuity may even operate at the group level, since cultures that value respect for elders tend to save more, while nations with longer histories tend to have cleaner environments.