Tom White
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Tom White
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
Tom White • Rockin’ Across Regions: Analyzing International Deal Flow from Industry Reports, Y Combinator, and…
Every company has to become a media company -- because every company needs to master the technologies of publishing to their customers, staff, neighbors, and to raise their media profile against their competitors.I realized that every company is now a media company. It doesn't matter if it makes network gear or diapers, every company needs to... See more
ZDNet • Every company is a media company
Readers crave lessons; aspiring diplomats can learn from them; old hands can quibble with them. Cooper calls them “maxims.” One is particularly powerful – and painful. It comes from Robert McNamara and his reflections on Vietnam written in 1995. It is a searing indictment as we ponder the calamity in Afghanistan. It sums up a lot of Cooper’s own... See more
American Diplomacy • The Ambassadors:Thinking About Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times | American Diplomacy Est 1996
Like most things, though simple, it is not easy. After all, the map is seldom the territory.To hammer this home, below are two things Venture Capital is decidedly not:If you are funding a company to “pour gas on the fire” and replicate/scale already-validated results, that is not venture capital. If you are funding a company to “run the same,... See more
Tom White • This Time is Different
Like Schopenhauer, Houellebecq argues that suffering is not an accidental byproduct of existence. It is existential.
“All existence is an expansion, and a crushing.”
He suggests that poetry, art, expressive language, and all true creation spring from this pain. The poet’s first task, he claims, is “to return to the origin; that is, to suffering.”
“All existence is an expansion, and a crushing.”
He suggests that poetry, art, expressive language, and all true creation spring from this pain. The poet’s first task, he claims, is “to return to the origin; that is, to suffering.”
Michel Houellebecq: On Suffering and Learning to become a Poet
death by procedure. The modern way of declaring something wrong without ever admitting it or giving it attention.
When beauty breaks the system
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 people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads.Harari recently said about writing Sapiens:I thought,... See more