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“I think it’s really important for every community, even if it’s led by a brand or platform, to have a telos or raison d’être."
Vox • Brands want to be more than your friend. They want community.
JT is still more famous, but when he visits Silicon Valley, people ask if he’s Sean Parker.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Krause's isn't a canny operator who roots out waste: he's a guy who tears out all the wiring and then grudgingly restores the minimum needed to keep the machine running (no wonder Musk loves him, this is the Twitter playbook)
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The online world was his stage; he just needed to decide who would come out from behind the curtain.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
“You need to ruin people’s lives for the next two months.”
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
“President of the world, then!” Neumann tossed out cheerfully. The situation
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
