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links 11/05/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/11-05-2025

https://www.thirdoikos.com/p/life-in-the-third-oikos-jesse-genet description of daily life for an entrepreneur turned homeschool mom, interview by Nicole Ruiz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumash_people they're still around!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/arts/television/maria-riva-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.uFZP.tjEhyXyNasNz&smid=url-share Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich's daughter, had a rough time growing up
https://builders.genagorlin.com/p/the-hidden-belief-that-kills-great by Gena Gorlin, if you don't have high standards for employees it might because you're misanthropic, aka you secretly believe "everyone sucks except me" and must be accommodated.
https://transluce.org/ AI interpretability org

if you don't have high standards for employees it might because you're misanthropic

That sounds to me like a needlessly complicated theory. Maybe the reason why they hire mediocre people is that exceptional people are rare and expensive?

Like, what's the alternative to "They hire middling engineers instead of holding out for 10x'ers"? If you interview people, and you find out that most of them suck, and then there are a few average guys, but no 10x'er... should you keep waiting? You would be missing opportunities, losing the momentum, and running out of mone... (read more)

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