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An ambitious series on an ambitious book about an ambitious man.

A fact known to the ancients and lost on the moderns is that single young men are by nature harsh. It is through marriage to a woman that most men acquire a greater capacity for humanity and compassion.

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So much of the social contract in 1st world countries is dependent upon a rising working age population. People fear AI will take jobs; the bigger risk is if it can't.

Tell me who your heroes are, and I'll tell you who you are.

A must-read for any self-respecting technologist.

But where danger threatens, That which saves from it also grows. —Hölderlin, Patmos

Boom! The book Byrne Hobart and I are publishing with Stripe Press is now available for pre-order: amazon.com/Boom-Bubbles-S…

This is one of the most important books I've read in the past two years. On the intellectual history of "innovation" ... why every civilization in the west before ours hated the idea and how we grew to love it. open.substack.com/pub/johnathanb…

Why "Innovation" Was a Crime in the 16th Century | Great Books Lecture For most of history, “Innovation” was a BAD word. Plato despised it, Aristotle was suspicious of it, Machiavelli warned against it, and Edward VI even criminalized it. But why did the greatest minds of the

VCs are always looking for proven founders in proven markets despite every generational company being created by an unproven founder in an unproven market

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“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis of all morality.” - Dune

The worst that a prince may expect from a hostile people is abandonment; but from hostile nobles he has to fear that they'll rise against him; for they always come forward in time to save themselves, and to obtain favors from him whom they expect to prevail. — Machiavelli

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