Zach Kirshner

Don’t Disrupt

In a static world, a monopolist is just a rent collector.

Definite Optimism

Globalization Means Substitution

A cognitive bias is a systematic way that your innate patterns of thought fall short of truth (or some other attainable goal, such as happiness).

Indefinite Pessimism

She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. but all, involuntarily, became part of some deeper assertion of life.

— Shirley

MAKING VIRALITY VALUABLE

Outside money is Plan Z