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When you train people to look steadily at whatâs beautiful, youâre telling them that some things are worth revering. And once reverence enters, relativism doesnât stand a chance.
The truth that applies to many fields, which can frustrate some as much as it energizes others, is that the person who tells the most compelling story wins. Not who has the best idea, or the right answer. Just whoever tells a story that catches peopleâs attention and gets them to nod their heads.Harari recently said about writing Sapiens:I thought,... See more
Those interested in diplomacy will read this book with pleasure and profit. And indulge its idiosyncrasies. Cooperâs analytical skill lies in reconstructing complex chains of events; his synthetic talent, in making sense of it all. The latter was pronounced in his earlier work, Breaking. Here he adds analysis. His is an intellectual apparatus... See more
Forward Deployed Engineers were pioneered by Palantir: instead of throwing software over the wall and hoping for adoption, you put engineers on the ground who understand the customerâs problems and can bridge the gap between what the product does and what the customer needs.
Itâs been copied across the industry. And it works.
This allows us to pop the algorithmic bubblesâthe weapons of math destructionâused by the Twitters, Facebooks, Googles of the world to lull us to sleep. It shuts off the intermittent dopamine drip to which we have become tethered and addicted.Though I do not lead a life so interesting to write about each and every day (partly why this newsletter... See more
Technology is changing one of the most powerful forces in shaping society: ambition. What the most ambitious people choose to do with their lives has a profound impact on society, the economy and culture. Itâs changing, fast.First, that digital technology is the most recent in a series of âtechnologies of ambitionâ that have enabled ambitious... See more
A great deal has been written about what constitutes Venture Capital and what does not (including by this very author) in these seventy years. Though many different things to many different people, Justice Potter Stewartâs famous dictum in Jacobellis v. Ohio works for our purposes:I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I... See more