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If the strategy involves 10 bets, you don’t get evaluated based on any particular bet, or even an average, yet the total performance of the basket investment
If one of those bets accounts for 99% of the profit of the basket then that is a perfectly fine outcome. You can make risky bets in a way where you know you are not going to lose everything if you don’t score 100%
This is the nature of all probabilistic domains.All creative artists live in this probabilistic world where they can do that.
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The new kids on the block are educated on the internet, their depth of technological, financial, and cultural knowledge is very broad. They are idealists and have an intuitive sense of how new technologies could be harnessed to improve the world, and they actually have the power to do it.
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The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham
The best book on politics of the 20th century
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
The Ancient City by Numa De...
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You can “borrow” mental models of people you admire; Ask yourself, what would they say in the face of any particular challenge you are trying to solve.
Read about their thought process if they have talked about or written about it.
Ellon Musk uses first principles thi...
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In Marc’s view, the education system is completely unfixable
It’s an old system that has been on autopilot for 100 years and doesn’t fit anywhere anymore. It suffered the same fate as every institution that goes across multiple generations.
He doesn’t believe in schoo...
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It’s basically a battle between top-down hierarchy and lateral network building,
The way that power has been exercised in our society through these decades of mass systems has been about people in conference rooms arguing with each other over control of these mass mechanisms. They argue ov...
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I no longer think there are any qualified people starting tech companies that have bad ideas, it’s just a question of timing and execution.
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Marc asks the following questions to better understand claims about the negative effects of technology:
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Learning from experience is natural, but you have to understand the domain in which you are operating
In a deterministic domain (e.g. standardized testing) not getting a 100% and asking what you did wrong makes sense; you didn’t study enough, read the material, etc.
But this doesn’t w...
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Based on 1984, a novel by George Orwell technology is used to control the masses. Technology with the potential to disrupt hierarchical control instead ends up enabling top-down control.
Analyzing Martin Gurri’s scenario of nihilism Marc says Peer-to-peer networks are good at destroying but...
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What every venture capital capitalist of all time has in common is that each of them missed almost all of the great deals of their generation.
The bad news is that you are going to make that kind of mistake. But the good news is that you don’t have to score 100%; you can take chance...
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Marc Andreessen “reads backward” to reveal the patterns of societal reaction to new technology, optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for the future of the Internet, and why he thinks the education system is unfixable
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