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Clear filters"There's this political scientist Henry Farrell who I really, really love. I think he's so brilliant. I love his newsletter."
"James Dyson's biography does the best job of this. It's like yeah, it's difficult but it feels so good. It's the best feeling in the world."
"I'm going to do and I say with all my reflections on the Brothers Karamazov, right? And I stop working on that."
"Oliver Burkeman's 4,000 weeks. But he talks about this idea that we think that we are guaranteed more days to live."
"You're like number six on business Substack"
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Mario Gabriele on Stories, Finding World-Beating Founders, and Authenticity
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"Henrik is a writer. He writes full-time on Substack and had gone full-time fairly recently the last time I spoke with him."
"Mario is also a partner at Hummingbird Ventures as of a couple months ago"
"Henry Farrell said he was drawing from this book by the sociologist Max Weber, which is about the routinization of charisma in the Christian church"
"If you go into like a discord or like a group chat, the ideas that can float around and get accepted are going to be much more extreme"
"She is a product designer at Watershed, a climate oriented software company."
"10 years ago, Y Combinator was pretty not ambitious. It was like weird. And now it's obviously like it's closer to Harvard."
"His newsletter, Escaping Flatland, explores attention, agency, relationships, and the inner life of making things."
"if you watch The Haunting of Molly Hartley some like weird horror movie there's a party scene that I got paid like $5,000 to DJ in for one night"
"Do you think Arena can get too big or do you think its quality will diminish as it grows? My answer for that is it can grow really big. It just has to do it slowly enough."
"But Robinhood was like, you know, this is back when you could double your money on Boeing in, you know, 16 minutes"
"I remember I read The Big Short right when it came out"
"oh I need to learn like React 18 when tell CSS whatever all of this like new things and then it takes a long time"
"Sam Walton had a great line in his biography. He's like, 'Listen, I didn't push my kids too hard cuz I understood that I was a fairly overactive fellow.'"
"He's talking about The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language."
"There's a writer I love, Benjamin Labatut, who wrote a book called When We Cease to Understand the World."
"He's talking about The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language."