Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 10th/11 August 2024
Why do people believe true things? by Dan Williams
“Nevertheless, unless you understand that the real puzzle—the deep question—of economics concerns wealth, not poverty, you will be fundamentally confused about the world around you. You will think poverty is an aberration that demands a special explanation—most commonly, someone or some group of people to blame—rather than treating it as the default state humanity will revert to in the absence of improbable and precarious institutional arrangements…”
Sequoia Capital invested early in Google, Nvidia, and Apple. Can Roelof Botha keep the legendary venture capital firm ahead in the AI future? by Michal Lev Ram
“ That injury ended his playing days. But spend some time with Botha—who’s now the head of Sequoia Capital, one of the oldest, largest, and most successful firms in venture capital—and rugby will come up again and again. Botha cites lessons from rugby in talks with founders and colleagues, and watches it devotedly while he exercises. The game has provided him with endless analogies about the value of teamwork and resilience—and some decent one-liners..…”
What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained I’d long suspected something was “off.” Then, at 43, an unexpected answer arrived by Mary H.K. Choi
“…The ASD diagnosis didn’t not make sense, but by that point in my life, I’d already landed on a tidy narrative that explained my perpetual strangeness with others, my constant beleaguerment in social situations. After all, mine is a classic tale of immigration and assimilation with a few asterisks for variety…”