Good essay from @matthuang 

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2023/09/casino-on-mars

no offense but it‘s mid

Nothing new was said here. It‘s the same justification of questionable behavior and choices I’ve read many times. Even some of the criticisms and arguments have been picked up again and refuted before this post. I don‘t have take aways, except that paradigm LPs must be normies

boring

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I‘m a greedy kiwi farmer. 

My theory: People will like this piece. As much as they like e.g. Eugene Wei‘s weaker piece on Twitter. They like it because they are author-simping, associating with ultra high status brands and people is useful.

Had a non high status VC posted this, nobody would have cared.

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pretty much sums up most of social media 😆