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Marc Andreessen's information diet Summary: "I'm on a total barbell. Like, so I either get information that's current right now, or I'm reading a book more often than I was like 50 or 100 years old," he said. "What I try to do is basically like fuzz out everything over a day, week, month, even year time frame." He added: "It's one of the reasons I follow 20,000 people on Twitter". Transcript: Speaker 1 And so one is, yeah, I mean, look, there's a big information diet component to it, like what are your information sources? I'll just give you my version of it. Like 100% of my information diet is either social media or books. Like, I'm on a total barbell. Like, so I either get information that's current right now, or I'm reading a book that more often than I was like 50 or 100 years old. And what I try to do is basically like fuzz out everything over a day, week, month, even year time frame, and just like fuzzle that stuff out. So it's like it's either leading edge information, or it's like basically permanent value. And so what that does is like then my social media experience, the purpose of my time on social media as a consumer of it is basically, OK, what I want, keep me on the leading edge. Show me all the new stuff. Show me all the new thinking. Show me all the crazy ideas. Like, get me exposed to all of the really creative people. And it's one of the reasons I follow 20,000 people on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, Good Startup Ideas, How to Have the Courage to Think Independently and Finding a Co-Founder

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The so-called instinct of causality is nothing more than the fear of the unfamiliar, and the attempt at finding something in it which is already known.—It is not a search for causes, but for the familiar.

The Will to Power

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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.

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, Good Startup Ideas, How to Have the Courage to Think Independently and Finding a Co-Founder

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