weird to me that if you ask anybody why great companies fail, they’ll tell you it’s because the culture somehow died or got messed up, but some of those same people don’t carry that through to countries and why they fail. it’s the culture, stupid.

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

it seems to me that "culture" is a placeholder for the less definable lifespan of the company's productivity.

Data-driven ventures and distributing the future more evenly.

mediocrity is inevitable, even in exceptional individuals. the exception typically falls within instances.

there could be an inarticulable orderliness to check mediocrity w/o churn, and in the case of a firm, this follows the idea that OGs dictate their succession, and thusly the firm outlasts broken forms of succession until an OG defects.

And some version of social entropy. Tolerating mediocrity only creates more mediocrity; and that’s where most people settle & compromise.