Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 01st/02nd July 2023
A Top Unforced Error: Alienating Your Investors by Jason Lemkin
“A broken VC relationship is almost impossible to fix. So it’s broken for years — but you still have to deal with them! It’s actually pretty easy to walk back merely tense moments with your investors. Just call them up the next day or the next week if need be and say they were also at least partially right. But if you push it so hard that it’s truly broken, the VC just writes off the investment in their mind, and often literally. You can’t undo that 6, 9, 12 months down the road.…”
Professor: Total Surveillance Is the Only Way to Save Humanity by Kristin Houser
“He also suggests we lean into mass government surveillance, outfitting every person with necklace-like "freedom tags" that can hear and see what they're doing at all times.…”
Modern Meditations by Josh Wolfe
“In addition to his work at Lux, Josh is also a Board Member at the mind-bending Santa Fe Institute – the preferred hangout of one of my favorite authors of all time, Cormac McCarthy; a place once referred to as “the mecca for the science of ‘complex systems.’” He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a voracious reader of fiction, and the founder of Kurion, a nuclear clean-up company. It played a pivotal role in Japan’s recovery from the Fukushima disaster….”