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writing
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consciousness technology
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the heliotropic turn
— on seeing the trick you're playing on yourself
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15 years of misdirection
— what magic taught me about attention
the binary is the avoidance
— on false choices and the discomfort of "both"
founders & building
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legitimacy lending
— a different theory of early-stage investing
the debt to the center
— notes on katz/baker and succession
human capital in the literal sense
— investing in people, not companies
the frontier
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language as the final frontier
— on posting your way to capital accumulation
frontiers of the mind are infinite
— notes on the beginning of infinity
esoteric emergence
— what happens when hidden knowledge surfaces
earlier writing
on shutting down
— lessons from closing a company
the dark night of the founder's soul
— what nobody tells you about building