It was exactly this article that inspired @rehmcap and I to go to Solomeo almost 2 years ago.
Photo taken from inside the store at the top of the hill.
My favorite thing @om wrote was actually an interview with Brunello Cucinelli in 2015. And to this day, I think it’s the single best thing you can read on running a business. Better than any book, better than any article.
Read it:
https://t.co/Nq8cmtxILT
1) if you haven’t made it theres still a ton of oppty to be a startup founder. Your first step is to understand the technology and the second step is to train yourself to imagine forward two years
2) if you have made it you should take a one way flight to Brazil and fuck your self to death in between runs on the beach, steak dinners and Ji Jitsu classes until you’ve reset your dopamine receptors and are ready to be curious about the world again.
Don’t return until you wake up every day with childlike wonder and a deep disdain for American status games
On my way back to LA from Buenos Aires. Haven’t been this infatuated with a city upon first visit in a long while.
I know saying that it felt like CDMX + Paris is cliche, but it’s the easiest way for me to explain to friends that haven’t been. BA is uniquely BA. I’ll be back.
@ejames_c Yes please! Do you think any of the ‘human data’ firms (that sell data to the frontier labs) are using methods from the ‘accelerated expertise’ world to extract expertise / skills?
New pod: A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF HOW CULTURE GOT STUCK
You know the deal: In the modern era, architecture got boring, corporate branding got minimalist, entertainment got captured by repetition and familiarity bias.
But why? What’s the grand theory of cultural stagnation?
Psychologist @a_m_mastroianni joins to debate.
His take: We are witnessing a society-wide decline of deviance that flows from increased rule-following and risk-aversion, across domains.
My take: Basically, capitalism got too efficient at delivering at scale for the median consumer, and this efficiency cashes out as cultural blandness.
https://t.co/kLvPnHTqP7
Literature is calling you to put down your phone; ignore the culture wars; block out the secondhand musings of newspaper philosophers. Turn to the great works of civilisation. See that your life is a quest for meaning. Become as ambitious as the poets whose work outlived empires.
the Borgesian Conundrum, that "each artist CREATES his precursors," illustrated. Of course it makes sense that there should be a painter synthesizing the work of medieval icon painters, old masters of Spain and Italy, & the surrealism of Magritte & Kahlo. But there wasn't before!
The dichotomy between effortful work and effortless work…
Although there’s a lot of tacit knowledge built into the seemingly effortless pen strokes.
See also: Paula Scher and her Citibank logo done on a napkin.