"You must want. That is the crucial thing.
Before you have, you must want to have.
And to want to have means to be able, first, to perceive what it is you want;
secondly, how to discipline and organize yourself in order to possess the things you want"
- Lee Kuan Yew
@BenjaminDEKR I think merger timing has nothing to do with it. Just coincidental. Anthropic’s & Google’s compute constraints really escalated in the past couple months post merger and they came a knockin’. It would have happened regardless.
Richard Nixon on Lee Kuan Yew, "A big man on a small stage who in other times and other places, might have attained the world stature of a Churchill, Disraeli or a Gladstone”.
Lee Kuan Yew now comfortably has a much bigger modern legacy and fame than all three.
@Ausproperty95 More people need to travel. Then people's perspectives would change. It's easy to make judgments on a country by reading posts and articles. It's another experiencing it first hand.