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The more people know about not just their own present-day government but the history and complexity of democracy, the better it will be for actually making it work. This will become ever more important as the existing education system struggles and alternative paths, including homeschooling, become ever more popular.
Albert Wenger • We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions
So how should you approach this as a startup founder/CEO? If you have raised a round at a really extended valuation in the last 6-12 months I would strongly advise making this cash last a lot longer than you had originally planned.
Albert Wenger • Startups and Macro Risk
A Sense Of Place
open.substack.com
The world continues to be one glorious pool of endless optionality, infinite choice. Multiple places to be in one night. Hobbies to pick up. People to meet. That’s comforting but scary because it means you have to choose, a la Sylvia Plath’s fig tree. The anxiety of having infinite possibilities branch out before you. You think you’ll suffer if you continue down one trail and neglect all other pathways. The truth is: you’ll probably suffer more if you don’t choose at all.
Lies We Tell Kids
paulgraham.com
Parenting and family stuff and weekly Go Flip Yourself
Imagining such a scene made me laugh:
Why does it bother adults so much when kids do things reserved for adults? The idea of a foul-mouthed, cynical 10 year old leaning against a lamppost with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth is very disconcerting. But why?
Today it is a commonplace that the automobile represents freedom. But to many Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.
Peter Norton • When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
