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
My notes from Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham:
The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way.
There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users... See more
Seed Checks
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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"
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
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... See more
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
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