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Only technical individuals innovate Summary: Sri Ram: Big companies are in this new model of managerial capitalism. What we do is we fund the throwbacks, such as Elon Musk and Henry Ford. He says managers don't expose themselves to risks involved in doing new things. "I think one of the world needs the bourgeois capitalist model," he says. Transcript: Speaker 1 You're going to need this management class. I go through all this to basically say, this then is the lens that I now provide basically for what we do in venture capital, what we do in startups, which basically, the way to think about It is the big companies, like the Fortune 500 and the big tech companies, are they are in this new model of managerial capitalism. At your point, Sri Ram, it's like, you can very clearly see that because you read the executive biographies and it's like, and you see it. It's like Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs. It's like all the above administration. It's all the markers of people who have kind of been in this elite management kind of role and now they're running these companies. What we do is we fund the throwbacks. And Elon Musk, we'll just use the example. Elon's a throwback. Elon's a throwback to Henry Ford. He's a throwback to the prior era of what Burnham called bourgeois capitalism, which is basically owner, proprietor, dictator of the company. And why do we do this? It's because companies that are run in the managerial mode don't do new things. Why do they do new things? Because managers don't do new things. The whole point of being a manager is that you don't expose yourself to the kind of risks involved in doing new things. You don't just try to basically stand that control job for as long as possible. I think one of the world needs the bourgeois capitalist model and they need the entrepreneurs to actually do what they do for anything new to happen. And so we basically keep that. We keep basically the original form of capitalism alive.

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Consistency Over Intensity Summary: CNN's John Sutter talks about the concept of habit stacking. He says meditation can be tied to a well-established, daily routine. One woman who wanted to meditate couldn't find time for 20 minutes every day. She was frustrated with herself and decided to give it up completely. Transcript: Speaker 1 There is one somebody i was working with who wanted to implement meditation, and for some reason he, or it was she, she couldn't find 20 minutes to do itike, she i just can't do 20, 20 minutes. And she's like, let me try ten minutes. And she couldn't do ten minutes. Now this woman was very startn to get frustrated with herself, because she was breaking promises to herself. And she was in give it up completely. Moka, i guess i can't meditate. And then we started talking about this concept of habit stacking, where maybe you could tie meditation to a habit that's already well established. And as she combed over her routine in the morning, she said, you knowha, i'm wan to do, i'm going to meditate while i brush my teeth.

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