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The obession with a Romanic Rebellion is the same thing that makes many people in SV fund high risk startups instead of seeking originals who focus on derisking https://t.co/nndFbpO04PIf you seek to defy god you better be damn sure you're dotting Ts and crossing eyes. https://t.co/SBCjAHQKYg

If true. What would it an institution look like if it were able to meet all of these goals?https://t.co/GECRq3vVnQ

I really wanna know.I seek to recreate Santa-Fe institute and Max Planck Institute.I wanna see a W.L. Gore & Associates like entity merged with the ethos behind Valve's swarm oriented structure.I'm also slow. Sometimes I don't get out of bed.https://t.co/a3wgrSCrDp

"The landmark theory is often presented as the work of a lone genius. In fact, the physicist received a great deal of help from friends and colleagues, most of whom never rose to prominence and have been forgotten"https://t.co/DkdsxvMisY

Have you tried upgrading your cult?https://t.co/qBlM8zABQLhttps://t.co/xq1g1xqI6X

"People say you need to take unnecessary risks to make a breakthrough = false and self limiting belief"On innovation.https://t.co/WxkVy7EDYI https://t.co/kl0ZhipTGv

"What cultivating antifragility does, Taleb says, is enable us to minimize the potential harm from negative Black Swans while capturing the benefits of positive ones." https://t.co/o2DxS3MWBq

"it's like a power hierarchy that's been created in an industry to prevent other people from being able to get into it"https://t.co/Rik5b0wER4https://t.co/dsZp4n7gtn

"You see all these different problems right?and all these things in the world, and you're like 'well I don't understand that thing'.[...]But I want to effect them.[...]And the thing I want to remember everyday is: expertise is a scam."https://t.co/yvVF15vr4b

LMAO, Langley used a catapult and basically was just throwing paper airplanes with no landing gear?https://t.co/fQqqurAQxrI wanted to chuck things out of a cannon.https://t.co/IKMiV8UfzE

Imagine if Langley didn't give up on his catapult propelled plane idea."Catapults are a great way to get somewhere fast"https://t.co/wUEe1AZBCh