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Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass high tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects. The only things that have changed since then are that the... See more

Wired • Mother Earth Mother Board

Paul Graham wrote in 2016 about what something as simple as there only being three TV stations did to equalize culture:

Morgan Housel • How This All Happened

Culture industry roles were once much more coherent, the lines of power much more concrete. Figures like Anna Wintour and Rick Rubin gesture at this recent past. They were middle men connecting financial capital (businesses) with cultural capital (artists) to create social capital (cultural institutions). Fashion and literary editors, film and tele

Some polymaths are best known as intellectual brokers, Hartlib known as the intelligencer was a scholar of Bacon and Comenius and his work was to collect and diffuse the ideas and spread them in newsletters.

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Great men—and they were men—were once regular people, separated from the masses by steely character. Conwell preached the American virtues of innovation, pragmatism, and self-reliance dipped in bronze. Modern business simply tested every Christian’s nature. Conwell’s Wall Street gospel agreed with the unfettered accumulation by the nation’s first m

Kate Bowler • Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company

Organic sharing, growth and virality exposes readers to a wide variety of authors, serving up the best of each one’s writing. On Substack, instead of getting the best 1% of posts from 100 authors, you get 100% from each one.

nintil.com • Nintil - [Guest Post] How Substack Became Milquetoast

What’s coming into focus more gradually is how bad things are getting for those of us in the audience, too . Something that’s long bothered me and Erin about the hegemony of streaming is that if you do away altogether with physical media, you put yourself at the mercy of corporate accountants (who might decide there’s insufficient R.O.I. when it co... See more

Jonah & Erin • Streaming is an affront to God

Maybe the new local news is by intellectual vertical, rather than geographic area.