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Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
I know the politicians are mistaken because it was my job to predict which people will become billionaires. I think I can truthfully say that I know as much about how to do this as anyone. If the key to becoming a billionaire — the defining feature of billionaires — was to exploit people, then I, as a professional billionaire scout, would surely re... See more
Paul Graham • Billionaires Build
Das grausame Versprechen der Meritokratie
Eva Illouz • Explosive Moderne: Eine scharfsinnige Analyse unserer emotionsgeladenen Gegenwart (German Edition)
was just going down the rabbit hole of a random washington DC opinion journal and one thing that's always a redpill is that the thousands of DC minions are actually incredibly high IQ, competent, agentic, and powerhungry.. but 99.9% are complete nobodies in their 50s
a random 20 y/o at DOGE has had the means to exercise... See more
yung macro 宏观年少传奇x.com-Application: Emergent Ventures’ application is laser focused on the quality of the applicant’s ideas, and boils out the noise of credentials, references, and test scores.
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
I believe in the second inning, network bonding curves will also increase the income disparity at a geometric rate: Transparency of the value of an individual to a network creates a ruthless meritocracy. Meritocracy is good for the most talented, motivated or lucky. But for the bottom 90%, everyone can now see that they rank in the bottom 90% in pe... See more
James Currier • Network Bonding Theory: Grow Your Startup By Making It A Network
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. Benefits include: greater diversity of accepted candidates; less ridiculous resources spent b