Leo Nasskau
- I remember 2015 or so, Jeff Bezos came on stage and said that this sort of way of doing grocery shopping doesn't seem like it's the right solution. And the whole team was like, shit, Jeff Bezos saying this. But actually, in our model, the marketplace model was superior to our first-party fully integrated model for various reasons. And our first pri... See more
from Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart by Elad Gil
Instacart CEO on first first principles thinking
- “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
— André Gide, 1925from Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
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“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”
from René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race by Leo Nasskau
- Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to pass the Locomotive Act, whose most notable feature was an absurd requirement that a man walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag and blowing a horn. It stunted the U.K. automobile... See more
from Towards guardrails, not guidelines: a policy framework for powerful AI systems by Matt Boulos
Progress Studies and
- When institutions become powerful and entrenched, the logic of state interest begins to override the more fundamental interests of continuity. The qualities which brought the state into being may ultimately conflict with and upset its stability and end up suppressed. The militant hero culture of the old patrician families gave Rome its empire, but ... See more
from New Article: You Won’t Survive As Human Capital by Palladium Editors
Statesmanship and Roman Empire
thought the sum of the essay was lower than its best claims, like this claim
- This is why successful companies still pursuing breakthroughs are always led by live players, often the founders.
Only Mark Zuckerberg could have changed Facebook's name and decided it was now a virtual reality hardware company.from Tweet by Bismarck Analysis
“The contemporary man should not find it difficult to play a role in which modern life is casting him. Glued to his movie or television screen, fed his daily dose of scandals, always watching and never acting, he has become a Peeping Tom.”
from René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race by Leo Nasskau
- Girard believes that this concept permeates every aspect of society. “Enlightenment concepts of the individual persist all the way into existentialist thought,” he argues. In espousing equality between all men, the Enlightenment propagated the belief that the individual should not be subsumed to another. Indeed, the individual should not be subsume... See more
from René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race by Leo Nasskau
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