Thread by @NeckarValue

Wide-ranging conversation with @bhorowitz

The 'trust/communication equivalency':
"If I trust you completely, you don’t even have to talk to me. I know you are acting in my best interest at all times. If I don't trust you at all, I won’t hear anything that you say."

"High fidelity honest communication is the key to building trust."

"Courage is the foundation of all virtues. Your integrity and trustworthiness can be measured only when something happens: in order to develop a high trust relationship, you have to go through some shit."

Finding happiness through contribution and abundance.

"If you can align your life with where you have the talent to make a large, meaningful, and real contribution to the world, your circle, or your family, then you can be very happy."

"Abundance is the anti-hater/anti-jealous mindset. If you believe there is plenty in the world for everyone and you are happy to see people who contribute succeed, then you become part of "team contribution.""

"If, on the other hand, you have a scarcity mindset, it's really hard to be happy no matter what you get or how rich you are or how good looking you are, because there's always somebody richer or better looking or whatever."

"VC done right understands the entrepreneurial ethos and, therefore, the hip hop ethos."

Mars colony, AI, simulation theory as social dominance memes, "gold chains and rims for nerds"

"I am at the leading edge of the culture and can do things that you consider absurd that will garner me attention and enable me to dictate trends in thinking about fashion."

"There are two dominant narratives in human literature: Good vs. Evil and Humans Against the Gods
The Gods are "the system." The systems that we've all created — the school system, the prison system, the free market system, the system of democracy."

Full conversation:
sotonye.substack.com/p/the-architec…