“SF is to founders what monasteries are to monks.”
“Startups are like political revolutions: A constant struggle between
the idealistic vision and the pragmatic compromises necessary to get
there.”
“Children should be raised the same way muscles are built: Expose
them to the largest setbacks they can recover from.”
“The elected buffoon is just as illegitimate to Confucius as the
enlightened monarch is to John Locke.”
“In political philosophy, Plato is utopian, Hegel is iterative.”
“In startups, Theil (Zero to One) is utopian, Ries (Lean Startup) is
iterative.”
“The politics of business converge with the politics of sororities:
They both seek the most agreeable, least controversial position because
they are not political entities and merely use politics for ulterior
ends.”
“A is like B, because I understand neither A or B but can describe
them in vague enough terms that some people might not catch on.”
> "In political philosophy, Plato is utopian, Hegel is iterative."
Literally 'takes a class w/ Honneth once.'
How do these insufferable assholes actually operate in the world?
Why do they talk about Hegel so much? I really think if these rationalists actually bothered to read anything by Hegel, they would not like him so much.
I genuinely wonder if the answer is "Fallout New Vegas", most of these guys are in the right age bracket that Ceaser's pseudo intellectual rants might have been baby's first philosophy.
> "SF is to founders what monasteries are to monks."
> It produces great companies because it's so damn boring.
I'm so out of touch, I thought he was saying Science Fiction sucks and was about to get all fighty.
Also, I've witnessed one homicide and one attempted homicide in SF, despite having spent a total of less than two months there, so I wouldn't say it's *boring.*
>"Children should be raised the same way muscles are built: Expose them to the largest setbacks they can recover from."
I probably wouldn't bothering pointing this out if I were feeling more charitable to the writer of that sentiment, but this isn't true. In order to build up strength, you *don't* exercise to failure, even a "recoverable" failure. With the exceptions of competitive lifting and attempts to set records, you stop while you still have the ability to push out a few more reps.
I don’t know of the person in question - but capacity for deep (conceptual) thinking is not at all disproven by proclivity for spelling. A deep conceptual thinker would quite possibly regard spelling as trivial. That’s the nature of what they do after all. They are uninterested in low level procedural formalities and very interested in high level modeling and analogous abstractions.
> Sucks there are only 2 classical composers, Bach and Mozart.
He would've included Beethoven, but it was going around twitter that he might have been black
Toccata and fugue or Bourree in E minor are undeniably amazing tunes and everyone knows it. Suggesting that only patricians like Bach is on a transcendental plane of stupid
>An huge organ filling a church with Bach is quite something.
It really is, the way he was able to mimic that effect in other pieces like his solo violin fugues is amazing too. But if you like the organ music maybe you should check out some of the symphonies by Bruckner, he's the only composer to come close to Bach.
Checked the worst data source of all time, youtube search for bach first hit as 50m views, yt search for mozart first hit has 200m views. Says nothing about the split between classical and non-classical fans of course.
Some other gems from the TL:
“SF is to founders what monasteries are to monks.”
“Startups are like political revolutions: A constant struggle between the idealistic vision and the pragmatic compromises necessary to get there.”
“Children should be raised the same way muscles are built: Expose them to the largest setbacks they can recover from.”
“The elected buffoon is just as illegitimate to Confucius as the enlightened monarch is to John Locke.”
“In political philosophy, Plato is utopian, Hegel is iterative.”
“In startups, Theil (Zero to One) is utopian, Ries (Lean Startup) is iterative.”
“The politics of business converge with the politics of sororities: They both seek the most agreeable, least controversial position because they are not political entities and merely use politics for ulterior ends.”
“A is like B, because I understand neither A or B but can describe them in vague enough terms that some people might not catch on.”
dude has a pinned tweet where he calls himself a deep thinker but can’t spell affect properly
This guy is trying to scam some vc money lol
Elon is like dogshit and no i will not be explaining exactly how
Sucks there are only 2 classical composers, Bach and Mozart.
‘The illusion of knowledge is more harmful than ignorance.’ He should listen to himself.
E: also weird irony, but I always really liked Bach. An huge organ filling a church with Bach is quite something.
The faux intellectualism is killing me. These people are just creepy nerds having para-social relationships with rich dicks
::soft fapping intensifies::
Just ime, Bach is way more popular among non classical fans than Mozart
SneerClub, therefore, must be New Kingdom
Or at least pop must be anyway
a late night ride through nonsensical metaphors and the same basic mushy sampled chords heavily dubbed over with straight up weird shit for forever who should really go to bed
some people need more Schoenberg
The subtext: ‘I listen to Bach and Mozart’