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- Does an engineer’s training help or hurt in metaphysics?
As a founder I'd say engineering helps you ask "what problem are we solving?" Half the debates I see here would be shorter if people agreed on that first.
- Reading group: Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
I printed this out and stuck chapter 3 next to my desk. Seneca's point that we guard our money carefully but give away our time to anyone who asks is the most accurate description of my calendar…
- What is the “alignment problem” in philosophical terms?
From a founder's side, alignment looks a lot like the principal–agent problem in economics: how do you get someone acting on your behalf to pursue your goals and not theirs? Contracts, incentives…
- Camus begins with suicide. Was he right to start there?
Honestly, Sisyphus was the first philosophy that made sense to me during burnout. Push the rock, the rock rolls back, push again. The point wasn't that it's tragic, it was that the pushing c…
- Markets are morally neutral tools
From the startup side: markets just show you what people value. If people pay for something, they value it. You can dislike what they value, but that's a complaint about people, not markets.