What's the German word for "bitter-enders digging in after the judicial revocation of the current thing"?
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Going broke in support of the current thing is no vice. It may be a bad business decision, though.
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Elites were better respected when we couldn't see them up close. This should tell us something about what they were like before the Internet as well.
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So rather than racking our brains seeking tweaks to the social media experience of the average user, we might want to think more about why the elite is having such a terrible time on Twitter and can’t stop making a fool of itself in the eye of the public? #StopProjecting 7/7
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The Internet is, at least in part, an X-ray machine that exposes faults in elites and the institutions they run.
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Analyses jumping from “people enjoy sharing cat pics on Insta” to “democracy in peril” leave out a huge party of the story. Note that @mgurri’s account of how social media undermine trust in elite institutions rests primarily on “more transparency”
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Very interesting piece on the current thing. "Something strange happened to the news over the past four years. The dominant stories all resembled the scripts of bad movies—sequels and reboots."
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Attacking VC = defending entrenched corporate interests. A position taken by some people you might not expect.
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American corporate executive compensation scales proportional to commitment to the current thing.
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A, spell my name right, you have Google. B, I follow over 20,000 people. C, What's a good term for someone who obsessively polices who and what other people read?
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Look at who billionaire Mark Andreessen follows and tell me there is not a problem with growing anti-feminist sentiment among powerful men.
Look who follows this.
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Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Resting moral superiority face."
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Starting to worry the China boosters have all come down with permanent laryngitis.
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The primary role of the media is to punch you so hard in the limbic system today that you come back tomorrow.
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Media is the great current thing generator and sustainer. The current thing ratchet.
It would never allow a 4 second, let alone 4 month, current thing pause.
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But what addict wants to go four months without a fix?
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The greatest psychological experiment of our time would be a four month pause in current-thing-generating media (CTGm)
Tech dependency, news / politics obsessiveness, oversocialization - then just go quiet and force people to observe and comment without knowing goodthought
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No joke!
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You joke but it ultimately is a kind of theater, sacrificial (social?) violence that doubles as a panopticon:
outsidertheory.com/control-societ
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone, without a current thing.”—Pascal, probably
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The feeling of being adrift between current things, forced to live within oneself, staring into the void. Come on, come on…
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I sense a lull in the current thing. Buckle up.
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Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
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The Discourse Cinematic Universe
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The Discursiverse
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Greer was ahead of his time.
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Pirate ships ran on a 100% equity model, one share each with two shares for the captain. Slackers got tossed overboard.
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100% stock based comp does not solve loafing. I mean god, there's a reason it's called vesting and resting
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Every metric needs a counter metric!
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100% stock based comp does not solve loafing. I mean god, there's a reason it's called vesting and resting
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Information >> heroin. We have long lived in a metaverse of language and writing, and people get high AF in it.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers line "getting high on information" turned out to be pretty prophetic.
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Startups do this with 100% stock based comp. Activists do this with ROIC based comp. Starting from two different extremes, arriving at a similar place. Equity value >> empire building.
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Is that incentive design laid out well anywhere? Some element should be replicable.
I've already got High Scalability Handbook and Hard thing about Hard things on my list. Is there a good treatment of this?
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There are no adults in the room. There’s only us.
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No one to hold people accountable, and the final bill of reality isn't even on the horizon.
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The Greatest Generation produced the Boomers. 👀
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Our generation will never be labeled The Greatest for letting this happen under our watch.
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Yes. Companies can often move faster with fewer employees, due to lower communication overhead. Scale and speed can be a very real tradeoff.
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They stretch it for the whole quarter! By calling more and more endless and completely useless meetings or writing complicated user journeys or inventing new fun things to do.
This kills productivity, quality, and makes the best talent leave. (2/4)
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The only solution is very careful incentive design.
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What do you think is a way to avoid that?
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WHO DID THIS
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Can be days or decades. However long the spirit moves the people.
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What is the half-life of the current thing?
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No, rather, the point of a complex situation BECOMING the current thing is to reduce (transform) it to a binary good/evil friend/enemy distinction.
There are always many other complex situations that don’t become the current thing and don’t do this.
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Social cohesion and defining the political friend/enemy distinction.
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What is the purpose of current thing ?
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It's a common mistake for founders to hire or give stock to someone for access to their Rolodex of powerful contacts. The value of such lists is always exaggerated. And if you build something great, the powerful will seek you out anyway; that's how they got to be powerful.
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Objectivism?
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Can we stop saying to our sons things like: “take care of your mother while I’m gone.”
This is insinuating that women can’t take care of ourselves. And it’s bullshit.
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This is true.
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This is right. All the institutions & companies doing this are now packed 15 rows deep with up-and-comers *at least as* radical as the people at the wheel right now, and these tactics are rewarded, in that they allow the leftists to tighten and extend their institutional control twitter.com/pmarca/status/…
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This seems... unlikely to replicate.
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Higher intelligence is robustly related to greater tolerance of disliked groups. psyarxiv.com/dpx74/
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Canceling student debt could add over $170 billion to our country’s GDP in the first year alone. It’s good economic policy and the right thing to do.
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