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Nov 26, 2018 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
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Highlights from Peter Thiel's "Founder as Victim, Founder as God"
blakemasters.com/post/245786838…
Great article on Girard's mimetic theory applied to the startup world.
Thanks @mistermircea and @Rahul_Ramc Many traits are normally distributed throughout the population... Perhaps the founder distribution is an inverted normal distribution. Both tails are extremely fat. Perhaps founders are complex combinations of, e.g., extreme insiders and extreme outsiders at the same time.
Nov 26, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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Some gems from this great talk by Rory Sutherland:

Many thanks to @david_perell for the recommendation on his website! The context in which a choice is presented influences our decision more than the long term consequences of the decision.
Nov 23, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I read Dostoevsky and Shakespeare for the same reason physicists use mathematical formulas: as an abstraction to
1. Develop generalizable insights about reality, and
2. More easily communicate your insights to others
THREAD 1. In reality there are always thousands of variables that are unique to each situation and make it hard to apply insights from one scenario to another scenario. But by using models that only focus on the ESSENTIAL facts (that contribute large % of the