"You’re obviously a very capable, smart person: would the Aella story would have landed in the same spot if you had a different start in life? If you hadn’t worked in a factory say, or if your family had been different? Would you be a Y Combinator founder right now instead? Nothing against the current … Continue reading Pathways of Success
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Dan Savage Revolutionized Sex…
"Over the years, Savage honed his philosophy on boundaries—we should all be good, giving, and game for our partners, but we should also accept their hard limits as “the price of admission.” He built up an encyclopedic knowledge of kink and the mechanics of sex: the long-term effects of nipple clamps, how to stage an … Continue reading Dan Savage Revolutionized Sex…
Phil Tippett’s Mad God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbW5ns_pIZo&t=71s "One of Hollywood’s leading visual effects designers since the 1970s, Tippett has just spent three decades directing his first feature film: Mad God, a gruesome animated fable wherein a mysterious spy must infiltrate the lower depths on a dangerous mission. It starts with one of the shirtier quotes from Leviticus, the Bible’s angriest book, … Continue reading Phil Tippett’s Mad God
Dennis McKenna: Societal Delusions, Crooked Media, and the Immortality Key
"For episode 22 of Business, Life, and Ayahuasca we are incredibly thankful to have on the godfather of psychedelics, Dennis Mckenna. Dennis Mckenna has been on the scene of the psychedelic movement since the 60s and is still vastly influential today. Dennis Mckenna along with his late brother Terrence Mckenna were a key factor in … Continue reading Dennis McKenna: Societal Delusions, Crooked Media, and the Immortality Key
Anything Can Go – Interview With Paul Feyerabend in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtzWMh1fro A quote from Paul Feyerabend's Stanford Encyclopedia page, quoted this bit: "One of my motives for writing Against Method was to free people from the tyranny of philosophical obfuscators and abstract concepts such as “truth”, “reality”, or “objectivity”, which narrow people’s vision and ways of being in the world. Formulating what I thought were … Continue reading Anything Can Go – Interview With Paul Feyerabend in English
A New Orality is Coming to Replace Old Literacy
"If the past emergence of newspapers was ‘linked to the liberation of the national bourgeoisie’, where is the social media era leading us?(AM): The social media era has already led us to what Martin Gurri has called ‘the revolt of the public ’. I have described this process as the emancipation of authorship. Before the … Continue reading A New Orality is Coming to Replace Old Literacy
Professional Weirdo: John L. Tenney
When my source for weird news says you're a professional weirdo, i.e., "In the latest episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Conner talks with paranormal investigator and professional weirdo John L. Tenney," and it has the title THE PARANORMAL IS REAL & REALITY IS PARANORMAL. I'm going to have to have a listen. Bookmarking … Continue reading Professional Weirdo: John L. Tenney
Hiroshima by John Hersey
"A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next—that … Continue reading Hiroshima by John Hersey
Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Really Is Different
"And you want to talk about a negative productivity shock, too. The biggest positive productivity shock we’ve had over the last 40 years has been globalization together with technology. And I think if you take away the globalization, you probably take away some of the technology. So that affects not just trade, but movements and … Continue reading Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Really Is Different
Mal on the Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuF3ZudCwwM "In conventional business attire, trusty Mohawk at their side, the two would waylay pedestrians and proprietors. Clandestinely recording each conversation, they would retreat to the curb to rewind: The Mohawk used quarter-inch metal cassettes and rewinding the tapes required the operator to manually turn a handle like a fishing reel. Then they’d hook up … Continue reading Mal on the Street
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