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And this is the idea then, that if you perform knowing (and notice I said, perform), and knowing is always a corporal, embodied, tactile relating with the world - that is always risky. That is always speculative. That is always experimental. And it's always political. When we know the world in ways that centralized us as prime knowers, one of the... See more

In an interview with Roxana Fabius, Patricia M. Hernandez, and me for The Scalability Project (2020), adrienne maree brown described relationships like a spiderweb—diaphanous yet strong, thick yet porous. “A web allows things to fall through, like a sieve,” she said. “Some things are not meant to be caught.” I like to think of these webs as... See more

The truth is that we want most things according to how other people model the value of those things to us. These people are models of desire.

Many Founders have a fantasy that data will be an ongoing insight engine — that as they collect more and more data, they will get more and more insights that will give their startup an ongoing advantage.

Data Scale Can Give Your Startup Some Defensibility

Part 2: How to cultivate a point of view

This is what Girard calls metaphysical desire: desire of another’s desire—not of any particular object.