Philipp Rimmler

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

As more and more of us continue to buy in, then, it’ll be harder and harder to avoid the algorithmic gaze and the way it shapes our communication.

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.

“L’opportunité c’est fucking énorme” —Ronan O’Gara, delivered in “Cork French”

A “barbell strategy,” Taleb writes, is one that involves “a combination of extremes kept separate, with avoidance of the middle.” Applied to reading, this means:

Trashy gossip magazines and classics or sophisticated works; never middlebrow stuff.

Remaining in the context of New York, it could look like this... The Right is fear-mongering about the dangers of everyday life in the city, while the Left doesn’t want to admit that the city has gotten progressively more dangerous. The Right doesn’t want to admit that police officers aren’t doing their job, and the left doesn’t want to admit we... See more

Context, in other words, can be derived from details.

That sounds fine, wonderful — real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever — make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world.

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