Tom White

the triumph and the heartbreak of building something that matters.

“l’esprit de l’escalier” – the wit of the staircase, the perfect thing you think to say only once you’ve already left.

Five types of wealth:

1. Time wealth — agency over your hours


2. Social wealth — deep relationships


3. Mental wealth — peace of mind


4. Physical wealth — a body that works


5. Financial wealth — money as enabler, not end

Julian of Norwich “All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”

Clavicular himself seems as much as anything a calculating product of a hyperactive digital culture that rewards the violation of taboo.

Daniel Miessler has a good analogy on this:

“Think of it as job vs. gym.

If we’re working a manual labor job, it’s fine to have AI lift heavy things for us because the actual goal is to move the thing, not to lift it.

This is the exact opposite of going to the gym, where the goal is to lift the weight, not to move it.”

Due to the seemingly inevitable march of globalization, our world is more interconnected today than it ever was before. Ironically, despite this growing overlap, inter-regional correlation rarely follows. That is, startup and venture capital conditions in one market seldom (if ever) correlate directly to the conditions in another. A wide variety of... See more