Leo Nasskau
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Facebook makes me feel the way I feel when I’m in a hospital.
Freddie deBoer • The Bitter End of "Content"
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
Elad Gil • Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart
Instacart CEO on first first principles thinking
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
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
culture and
Determine which lane is a natural fit for your business model
Seed Checks
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Progress Studies and Tech and Policy
Takes that aged badly: see this from 1937 the problem with our modern world is all of these newfangled toilets and umbrellas get rid of the books!
Startup Handbook: Hiring Employees
julian.comWhen 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
Palladium Editors • New Article: You Won’t Survive As Human Capital
Statesmanship and Roman Empire
thought the sum of the essay was lower than its best claims, like this claim
