3/ @DavidSacks on why he cracked down on meetings at PayPal
Email Culture > Meeting Culture
"The crack-down on meetings was a deliberate attempt to restore the "true" startup culture of the company"
4/ @davidsacks on "cracking down" on meeting culture
Clarify "areas of responsibility to heighten individual ownership + accountability and eliminate overlaps so [people] could make decisions within their spheres without the need to consult with or persuade lots of other people"
"'Stay close to the money.' If you're not close to the stream of cash flow, if you're not directly responsible for winning the bread, and bringing in cash, you're expendable... Cash flow is a lifeblood."
2/ Highlights from @joe_philleo’s answer to “Why did Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale found Palantir?”
3/ The Straussian Moment, calls for a reevaluation of the post-Enlightenment worldview on the grounds that mainstream Western philosophy fails to understand and provide a response to the increasingly powerful and dangerous individuals driven by non-economic concerns