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Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
In the course of everyday life we are bombarded in a thousand ways with messages to the effect that “service” is the highest mark of virtue, that morality consists of living for others. We are told that personal happiness, self-interest, and the profit motive are ignoble. We are told that the enlightened, the able, the competent, the strong must
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
Two years in, the mainstream critiques of Johnson’s health regimen remain the same, simple and amusing. It’s either that he’s too rich or too exacting in his lifestyle for any regular person to emulate and/or that he’s doing so much to his body in an... See more
Bryan Johnson and the Birth of the Blueprint Religion
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Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
A free society cannot be maintained without an ethics of rational self-interest. Neither can it be maintained except by men and women who have achieved a healthy level of self-esteem. And a healthy level of self-esteem cannot be maintained without a willingness to assert—and, if necessary, fight for—our right to exist. It is on this point that
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
The cosmopolitan outlook of Smart America overlaps in some areas with the libertarian views of Free America. Each embraces capitalism and the principle of meritocracy: the belief that your talent and effort should determine your reward. In the narrative of Smart America, meritocracy stands alongside democracy as the twin pillars of the American
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The Apology, as recorded by Plato, his student, is a bracing defense of the individual in search of truth:
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong. . . . I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I