Crazy, Fast and Slow
your Saturday roundup
Professionally, I focus on creating social benefit startups. In my Saturday morning emails I share what I’m learning and thinking. Topics range from better living and parenting to business and philosophy.
Building Fast. Here is a list of examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together. What should or can we add to this list? Why don’t we do more big things quickly? Two answers: ‘Mancur Olson argued that stable societies naturally tend to become less dynamic and more beholden to special interest groups with time. Empirical support for the claim is mixed. Synthesizing some themes above, Francis Fukuyama argued that interest groups have now made the US a "vetocracy".’ An energy revolution or cheaper housing likely calls for a lot of building pretty quickly.
Mochary’s Curriculum. I’m a fan of the book The Great CEO Within. The author has published a reading list. I’m slowly making my way through it. Curious which of these articles you disagree with?
Trade-offs. The book Origins of Genius suggests that mental illness in some humans is the price society pays for benefits of creative genius. If true, what are the implications? Does that make you more inclined to take better care of those with mental illness?
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Until next week,
Miles