Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
longtime Clinton foe Jeff Gerth. He’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
as Raghuram Rajan puts it, “What is particularly alarming is that the risk taking may well have been in the best ex ante interests of their shareholders.”
Lawrence Lessig • Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
But it compelled me to watch Jefferies more closely, a company whose namesake and origin, unlike Morgan Stanley, had a pretty non illustrious past (for starters, I had never worked at an established firm that had only one name).
Robert Lessin • Lessin's Lessons
“If you’re not good, Jeff will chew you up and spit you out. And if you’re good, he will jump on your back and ride you into the ground.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Or, as Robert Pitofsky put it, we should always be concerned that “excessive concentration of economic power will breed antidemocratic political pressures.”
Tim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
coming. “Being right and ineffective in venture is not worth very much,”
Sebastian Mallaby • The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
Monopolists, by contrast, disguise their monopoly by framing their market as the union of several large markets: