Entrepreneur, Author, and Investor
I have f*** you money so I appear to be fully independent (though I am certain that my independence is unrelated to my finances). But there are people I care…
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” -Mortimer J. Adler, in How to Read a Book
A third well-known tech history, just for good measure: Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin found success slow in coming, too. They started the company in 1996, and it wasn’t until eight years later that their search engine beat past competitors, leading Google to finally go public with a market capitalization of $23 billion.
For Steve Jobs, it took even longer. With Steve Wozniak, he started Apple Computer in 1976 but didn’t make a splash until 1984, with the release of the Macintosh. Then there was his eventual ousting and comeback — all before his business became the global giant it is today.
Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a Bulls***t vendor
…“peers”, there is a mechanism of citation ring in place that can lead to all manner of pathologies. Macroeconomics for instance, can be nonsense since it is easier to macrobull**t than microbulls**t –given how abstract the effect on society, nobody can tell if a theory really works.
More generally, a free person does not need to win arguments –just win
You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on his peer assessment
