Sublime

In the high-stakes competition between weapons and counterweapons, the weak link was not the supply of new ideas. It was the transfer of those ideas to the field.

“With Tom, it’s the last two percent that counts. What I now call ‘the ability to ship product’—to get it out the door.”

individual customers

Everything about him was peculiar, starting with motives—or at least what he believed his motives to be. He didn’t come right out with all of it on our walk, maybe because he realized how implausible it’d sound to a total stranger. He needed infinity dollars because he planned to address the biggest existential risks to life on earth: nuclear war,

protected versus the unprotected. Enhancing the common good versus maximizing and protecting the elite winners’ winnings.

In the middle was John Paulson. At the top was Steve Eisman.