Philipp Rimmler

L’esprit d’escalier

you’re not positioning, you’re posturing.

Speed isn’t just important, it is the moat. The ability to build, ship, learn, and adapt faster than everyone else is the only sustainable edge right now. In a world where everything is open source, everything is demo-able, and everything is one blog post away from being copied, speed is the only thing that compounds.

One: the loneliness crisis goes back further than we think; this is way more than just a case of “Internet bad;”

Two: this is not a loneliness crisis, it’s a fear crisis;

Three: by the time we even considered how much media was isolating us, it was too late; it went on for decades.

“Who are you?” the caterpillar barks at Alice from atop the giant mushroom, and Alice, never quite having considered the question, mutters a child’s version of Emily Dickinson’s “I’m nobody! Who are you ?”

Their genius? Converting intellectual positions into market arbitrage while wielding (and often owning) digital megaphones to reshape the very reality their investments bet against.

Taillon explained that nobody really anointed Mrs. Astor , but rather wealthy New Yorkers had a hunger for a social structure that, up until this point, hadn’t really existed. People were quick to follow Mrs. Astor’s lineage-based organization of society.