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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

The federal payments system has been a panopticon for decades, waiting for someone with political ambitions to break down the bureaucratic firewalls protecting it, and open it up. Apparently, that has now happened. If the system transforms into a tool to arbitrarily block payments to entities whom Musk or Trump doesn’t like, which Musk has claimed... See more

Abraham L. Newman • Elon Musk Weaponizes the Government

Capitalism

Luna • 2 cards

Capitalism vs. Creativity

Can there be both? Or will all creations ultimately be distilled down to “monetizable content.” This exhibit brought to you by…

David Pennington • 7 cards

Well-to-do people professionals who thought themselves secure in their jobs in finance or consumer internet faced a rude shock when Xi’s displeasure with these sectors caused rippling job losses. No US president has so much ability to overturn the lives of the rich. By contrast, in China, many pillars of society are liable to blow over when winds

Dan Wang • Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.

Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

innovation. An enterprise must not only create its future conditions of success but also must undo its previous ones.