Leo Nasskau
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empoweredbelonging.substack.comLeo Nasskau
“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.”
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
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
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
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
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.
Only Mark Zuckerberg could have changed Facebook's name and decided it was now a virtual reality hardware company.
Bismarck Analysis • Tweet
Housing bubble? (If it wasn't a bubble though, why was there so much contagion etc)
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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.”
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
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!