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If you earnestly attempt a hero’s journey in NYC, people will help you.
People will hold the subway door open to stop you from missing it, offer you water when you’re out of breath, and run after you with whatever you dropped.
It is the city’s most noble purpose.
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University towns are the most successful models of network states because they actually add to the town around them in the form of culture and commerce.
Re: network school
what I would add to the discourse is that a network state, as balaji has attempted, seems fundamentally at odds with its own success, meaning:
1. You either function like a parasite on a currently manifest nation state, whereby the more you grow in influence and autonomy from nation state models,
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And now NYC is perfect?!?
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Is “The Wire” a “reverse western”?
A show about how the institutions we build and rules we follow destroy us?
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If you happen to be in Chelsea today, Haele is teaching an art class.
Will tell you where if we are mutuals.
I don’t think Brian Armstrong is stupid so I think he doesn’t want degen customers anymore.
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I am petty about a few things, and one of those is when people I take a chance on early career ghost me when they start to succeed.
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Being an adult is awesome when hard work = good outcomes.
Unfortunately equations for this are in short supply these days.
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I’ve been stuck on the “Fishes” episode of “The Bear” for years and am finally going to finish it so I can move on with my life.
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I think network states are a mistake and we should work on improving the sceniuses we have eg NYC capitalism, SF tech.
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