Pg 17
- Chautaqua - Gathering of “multidisciplinary”
- Folks who presented lectures, sermons, scientific talks, music and theatre to large audiences in the late 19th and early 20th century - Modern day = TED talks, Pitch competitions, Beakerhead, NPR, Podcasts.
Pg. 16
- Anti Technologists
Ugly strange shapes of metal and brick whose purpose is unknown
Pg. 70
- Running a startup vs starting a business
Although motorcycle riding is purely romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic
To a romantic, this classic model often appears dull.. oppressive, heavy, endlessly grey. THe death force.
FDA come to mind?
There is no point in which the vision is unified
? chautaquas’ purpose is to unify the classic and romantic ways of thought
pg. 105
- The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you don’t actually know.
- ? In the lab we apply the scientific method in a classic form. In entrepreneurship it is beginning to be applied, however the variables are harder to control because now we are dealing with science, in addition to human behaviour. could use Eg. on page 106
If you get careless, nature will make a fool out of you.
Expansion at the roots - don’t expand what you know, expand the roots of what you already know.
Pg.168
“We’re going to pretend there is such a thing as instantaneous change, & see of we can find ways to of determining what it is in various applications”
- A neural network writes code without us knowing what is happening in the intervening steps, Newton did the same thing when he presumed an answer, then deconstructed it’s components to understand how it works
- Understanding neural networks podcast (80,000 hours podacat Chris Olah 18:00)
Pg. 192
Having trouble with students who had nothing to say
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Phaedrus has a student who has nothing to say about America, he challenges her to write about a state, then their city (Bozeman) then a street, then a single building and a single brick.
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When you are writing about a house, don;t start by thinking about a house, this would just be recall and therefor copying a description of a house that sombody else made. Instead
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- Setting - Where are you, is it a good idea to build a house here?
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- Meterials - People, time, money, equipment, - is it realistic to start building ahouse with what I have? can you protect it? Moat of barriers to entry
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- Funtion (Classic) - How team works, regulatory, external relationships. commitement
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- Form (Romantic) - Artistic, care, passion
- Other - Are you attached to the grid? partnerships, vertical integration,
- Who’s paying for this! what am I willing to give up and how much and I willing to give.
- Below is Mark David Spengler, like becasue he combines concrete forms in abstract ways
Abstract art is frustrating to classic thinkers b/c it is difficult to parse into explainable pieces. Lacks logic and rhetoric
