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We’re called SDM. Sonic Death Monkey.” “‘Sonic Death Monkey.’” “What do you think? Dick likes it.” “Barry, you’re over thirty years old. You owe it to yourself and to your friends and to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.” “I owe it to myself to go out on the edge, Rob, and this group really does go out on the edge. Over it, in fact.” “You’ll be going fucking right over it if you come anywhere near me next Friday night.” “That’s what we want. Reaction. And if Laura’s bourgeois lawyer friends can’t take it, then fuck ’em. Let ’em riot, we can handle it. We’ll be ready.” He gives what he fondly imagines to be a demonic, drug-crazed chuckle.
Paul: So the whole reason we got into doing startups synchronously, meaning a whole bunch at once, was to teach ourselves how to be investors. The first summer, the first time we did Y Combinator, it was a summer program for undergrads. In computer science, or probably in engineering generally, summer jobs are throwaway jobs. Google will hire college students during the summer in the hopes of recruiting them when they graduate. Google does not expect them to actually get shit done during the summer. So it’s kind of a throwaway for everyone involved. So we figured, since everyone in college treats summer jobs as throwaways, we’ll say, start a throwaway startup. And these guys could come and learn how to start a startup while we learn how to be investors on them. And so they would probably be shitty founders, and we would be shitty investors, but no one would blame either, because we each got what we deserved. [laughs] What ended up happening was that we were better investors than we thought, and the founders were better founders than we thought.
Interviews With the Masters
Robert Greene
Strong communities create both formal and informal rituals. There are as many types of ritual as your imagination can conjure up. They often rely on special symbols and are important emotionally. Remember: feeling connected, trusted, appreciated, and welcome is all in the realm of emotion. I believe that because we live in a far more casual time than previous generations, the rituals we keep are even more special now because we don’t turn to the institutional rituals of previous generations. In our American lives, blowing out birthday candles, roasting a turkey for Thanksgiving, and sending flowers and cards on Mother’s Day are all rituals with which we are so familiar that we may not even recognize them as such. One way to recognize a ritual is to ask whether removing the activity would make the time feel less important. Think about how you and your friends and family celebrate birthdays. What activities indicate that birthdays are more important than other days? What activities make these days “special” for you?
The Art of Community
Charles Vogl
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