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    <title>Verso</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-05T10:55:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is “be creative’. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society, celebrated as agile, progressive and liberating. It is the spring of the knowledge economy and shapes the cities we inhabit. It even defines our politics. What could possibly be wrong with this?

In this brilliant, counter-intuitive blast, Oli Mould demands that we rethink the story we are being sold. Behind the novelty, he shows that creativity is a barely hidden form of neoliberal appropriation. It is a regime that prioritises individual success over collective flourishing. It refuses to recognise anything—job, place, person—that is not profitable. And it impacts on everything around us: the places where we work, the way we are managed, how we spend our leisure time.

Is there an alternative? Mould offers a radical redefinition of creativity, one embedded in the idea of collective flourishing, outside the tyranny of profit. Bold, passionate and refreshing, Against Creativity, is a timely correction to the doctrine of our times.
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Strange shows us how it should be done

In terms of how to situate yourself in the academic literature in a book like this, it’s useful to see how Susan Strange dealt with the same issue. One of the reasons I was underwhelmed by The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is that I have spent the last several years researching and publishing about knowledge governance, with Strange’s work as my primary guide. Everything in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is easily modelled within Strange’s “structural power” framework, which emphasizes the ability of non-state actors to exert power so as to shape society’s foundations, the importance of knowledge creators and producers, and the importance of knowledge production itself.

Strange – an absolute giant in International Political Economy and in academia generally – was a committed materialist who nonetheless placed the creation and legitimation of (immaterial) knowledge at the very heart of her theory of the international political economy. Unsurprisingly, she’s nowhere to be found in this book.

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    <dc:date>2019-04-01T10:14:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These titles, while focusing on the Bay, offer lessons to New York, DC, Toronto, and the countless other cities around the globe hoping to spur growth and economic development by hosting and ingesting tech—by fostering the growth of technology companies, boosting STEM education, and integrating new sensors and screens into their streetscapes and city halls. For years, other municipalities, fashioning themselves as “the Silicon Valley of [elsewhere],” have sought to reverse-engineer the Bay’s blueprint for success. As we’ll see, that blueprint, drafted to optimize the habits and habitats of a privileged few, commonly elides the material needs of marginalized populations and fragile ecosystems. It prioritizes efficiency and growth over the maintenance of community and the messiness of public life. Yet perhaps we can still redraw those plans, modeling cities that aren’t only made by powerbrokers, and that thrive when they prioritize the stewardship of civic resources over the relentless pursuit of innovation and growth.
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These criteria mean that Small Tech:

Is owned and controlled by individuals, not corporations or governments.

Respects, protects, and reinforces the integrity of personhood, human rights, social justice, and democracy in the digital and networked age.

Encourages hitherto impractical non-hierarchial political organisation and agency at scale.

Nurtures a healthy commons.

Is sustainable.

Will one day be funded from the commons, for the common good.

Will never make anyone a billion dollars.

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    <dc:date>2018-11-01T09:08:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-paper/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jupyter rewards transparency; Mathematica rationalizes secrecy. Jupyter encourages individual integrity; Mathematica lets individuals hide behind corporate evasion. Jupyter exemplifies the social systems that emerged from the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, systems that make it possible for people to cooperate by committing to objective truth; Mathematica exemplifies the horde of new Vandals whose pursuit of private gain threatens a far greater pubic loss–the collapse of social systems that took centuries to build.

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    <title>Privacy, Security, &amp; Ethics – Computer Science’s “Jüdische Physik” – Terence Eden's Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-26T11:50:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm going to tell you an anecdote which is a gross oversimplification, and is an unfair comparison.
In the early part of the twenty-first century, many people working in the fledgeling Internet industry started making noise about privacy, security, and ethics. The mainstream technologists called them fearmongers, idealists, and anti-business. Their ideas were unwelcome and they were thrown out of both the cathedral and the bazaar.
Many retreated to academia, some stayed and tried to cultivate a sense of responsibility in the industry, a few started lobbying governments around the world. By the time trust in the existing structures had begun to collapse, there were too few privacy-focused employees left to reverse the damage.
By expelling the boring and pessimistic doomsayers, the Internet behemoths had sowed the seeds of their own destruction.
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    <dc:date>2017-10-10T19:23:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To be enlightened, in Yarvin’s world, means forming an uncomfortable alliance with street Nazis—the Stormfront set—and other déclassé white nationalists. The same goes for right-wing terrorists such as Anders Behring Breivik, whom Yarvin denounced, but only in the most limited and depraved terms possible. Yarvin wrote that Breivik should be condemned because his 2011 massacre in Oslo was ineffective as terrorism, which Yarvin considers a legitimate military tactic. Nazi terror was legitimate because it worked, Yarvin wrote. Breivik’s killing spree, which targeted young Norwegian leftists, was illegitimate because it was insufficient to “free Norway from Eurocommunism.” After all, he only killed ninety-two people! “We can note the only thing he didn’t screw up. At least he shot communists, not Muslims. He gored the matador and not the cape,” Yarvin wrote on July 23, 2011, one day after the terror in Oslo, and five years before going to Thiel’s house to hang out and watch their guy, Trump, get closer to power.

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The idea that the tech world is comprised exclusively of techies is a myth. People with humanities and art degrees (aka “fuzzies”) are crucial players in the innovation space.

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    <title>From a logical point of view … — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-13T15:18:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2017/08/11/from-a-logical-point-of-view/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have now read that “google manifesto”. I read it more out of a desire to forestall people saying “but have you ACTUALLY READ IT?” than out of any expectation that it would contain new or unfamiliar information, and indeed it was your fairly standard evo-psych “just asking questions”, genus differences-in-tails-of-distributions. It’s a mulberry bush that was already pretty well circumnavigated when Larry Summers was still President of Harvard. But what really struck me was that I have changed in my old age; I used to be depressed at the generally very poor level of statistical education, now I’m depressed at the extent to which people with an excellent education in statistics still don’t really understand anything about the subject. I’m beginning to think that mathematical training in many cases is actually damaging; simple and robust metrics, usually drawn from the early days of industrial quality control, are what people need to understand. Let’s talk about distributions of programming ability.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi startup-culture-must-die bad-statistics argument-by-authority cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:65e03c355e2d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bad-statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:argument-by-authority"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-silicon-valleys-workplace-culture-produced-james-damores-google-memo">
    <title>How Silicon Valley’s Workplace Culture Produced James Damore’s Google Memo | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-12T12:43:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-silicon-valleys-workplace-culture-produced-james-damores-google-memo</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“What You Can’t Say” is by no means a seminal text, but it is the sort of text that has, historically, spoken to a tech audience. “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” with its veneer of cool rationalism, echoes Graham’s essay in certain ways. But, where Graham’s argument is made thoughtfully and in good faith—he is a proponent of intellectual inquiry, even if the outcome is controversial—Damore’s is a sort of performance. His memo shows a deep misunderstanding of what constitutes power in Silicon Valley, and where that power lies. True, Google and its peers have put money and other company resources toward diversity efforts, and they very likely will continue to do so. But today, in mid-2017, men—white men—are still very much in the majority. It is still largely white men who make decisions, and largely white men who prosper. By positioning diversity programs as discriminatory, Damore paints exactly the opposite picture. He frames employees like himself as a silenced minority, and his contrarian opinions as a kind of Galilean heresy.
It is conceivable, of course, that Damore distributed his memo to thousands of his colleagues because he genuinely thought that it was the best way to strike up a conversation. “Open and honest discussion with those who disagree can highlight our blind spots and help us grow,” he writes. Perhaps he expected that the ensuing dialogue would be akin to a debate over a chunk of code. But, given the memo’s various denigrating assertions about his co-workers, it is difficult to imagine that it was offered in good faith. Damore wasn’t fired for his political views; he was fired for how (and where) he applied them. The memo also hints at a larger anxiety—a fear, possibly, of the future. But technological advancement and social change move at different velocities; someone like Damore might sooner be automated out of a job than replaced by a woman.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics bro-culture startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:bb1edd14d356/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://hbr.org/2017/08/how-the-imagined-rationality-of-engineering-is-hurting-diversity-and-engineering">
    <title>How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity — and Engineering</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-10T21:52:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hbr.org/2017/08/how-the-imagined-rationality-of-engineering-is-hurting-diversity-and-engineering</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just how common are the views on gender espoused in the memo that former Google engineer James Damore was recently fired for distributing on an internal company message board? The flap has women and men in tech — and elsewhere — wondering what their colleagues really think about diversity. Research we’ve conducted shows that while most people don’t share Damore’s views, male engineers are more likely to.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism rationality bad-actors objectivism startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dd0f8c9ef67f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rationality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bad-actors"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:objectivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/can-coops-revolutionize-the-tech-industry">
    <title>Can Coops Revolutionize the Tech Industry? by Gabrielle Anctil | Model View Culture</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-21T10:57:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/can-coops-revolutionize-the-tech-industry</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spoiler alert: I love coops.

I do more than just love them, in fact. I believe they can be something of a revolutionary tool for the greater good. Coops have democracy and horizontal decision making processes encased in their DNA. They generally have strong community values and believe in transparency. In a coop, technically, everybody has a voice. And while none of them are perfect, of course, the fact that democracy is so central to the making of a coop generally means that if somebody brings up an important issue – say, oppression – then it cannot be swept under the rug.

When it comes to the world of tech, where inclusivity is still a fight to be fought, I think worker coops can be a powerful weapon.

No wonder I work in one of them.

I started at Koumbit about a year ago, drawn to the values it embodied. But, as a full-time feminist, I was still suspicious of my new work environment: “If this place is so good for women,” I thought, “then why are there only 4 of us on a team of 12 people?”

]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:adrianh collaboration co-op business-culture business-model disintermediation-in-action startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b16fc786baf1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-model"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/08/end-of-summer-book-roundup.html">
    <title>Seth's Blog: Why don't authors compete?</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-31T12:17:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/08/end-of-summer-book-roundup.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's not a zero-sum game. It's an infinite game, one where we each seek to help ideas spread and lives change.

It turns out that in most industries in the connection economy, that's precisely what works. People happily tweet each other's handles to their followers and give references to others that are looking for jobs. When a business that's comfortable not having 100% market share happily recommends a competitor, they're sending a signal about trust and confidence and most of all, about feeding the community first.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>game-theory worklife business-culture startup-culture-must-die public-policy political-economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:94ceb8d4c194/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:political-economy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://chris.beams.io/posts/pinboard/">
    <title>The Internet of Small Businesses</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-19T22:48:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://chris.beams.io/posts/pinboard/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The success of Pinboard is also a reminder that despite current enthusiasms about decentralization, not every service needs to be redesigned to operate in a perfectly trustless or peer-to-peer fashion. There is a spectrum from total centralization to total decentralization, and there's plenty of room in the middle for services like Pinboard. The most important thing is that users are presented with increasingly better alternatives to "free". Pinboard is by all accounts just that—a great product at a decent price that's earned a solid reputation over time. I hope we see many more of its kind in the days to come.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife startup-culture-must-die business-model sustainability freelance via:mitten</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a262f255abf1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:freelance"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://al3x.net/2013/12/18/bitcoin.html">
    <title>Alex Payne — Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-18T13:21:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://al3x.net/2013/12/18/bitcoin.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Far from a “breakthrough”, Bitcoin is viewed by many technologists as an intellectual sinkhole. A person’s sincere interest in Bitcoin is evidence that they are disconnected from the financial problems most people face while lacking a fundamental understanding of the role and function of central banking. The only thing “profound” about Bitcoin is its community’s near-total obliviousness to reality.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics libertarianism bitcoin cultural-assumptions startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f44b679d53fc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bitcoin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/delusions-of-the-tech-bro-intelligentsia/">
    <title>Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia | Jacobin</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-22T13:05:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/delusions-of-the-tech-bro-intelligentsia/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With employees of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system on strike, the Silicon Valley tech elite has reminded us all that despite their enlightened Bay Area lifestyles, they are still, at root, a bunch of rich dudes. Corey Robin ably documents the reactionary politics and moral degeneracy of people who see themselves as heroic entrepreneurs and the people who get them to work as greedy parasites.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>labor startup-culture-must-die cultural-norms politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d8757099354a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2013/09/misallocating-blame.html">
    <title>Stumbling and Mumbling: Misallocating blame</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-05T12:22:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2013/09/misallocating-blame.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I fear that this might have important social consequences. If we muddle up luck and agency, we'll be apt to blame the poor too much for their misfortune, with the result that redistribution towards them will be less than it otherwise would be. What's more, we'll also be too indulgent towards the rich. We'll think that success is due to ability when it might be due to luck, and so tolerate mega-buck salaries. We'll also misallocate resources by creating a demand for forecasters, share tippers and active fund managers, most of whom owe what little success they get to luck rather than skill.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>startup-culture-must-die economics social-norms experiment</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:03e2099dce91/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/has-the-shale-bubble-already-burst.html">
    <title>Has the Shale Bubble Already Burst? « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-31T14:22:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/has-the-shale-bubble-already-burst.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The sharp inflection points for shale gas wells result from a well-known drawback of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies. Production peaks for a year or two but then the initial flow peters out. Overall lifespan of shale wells in Texas is about 8 years. Drilling company must continuously invest in the new wells or refrack the old ones. In comparison conventional, vertically drilled wells demonstrate more stable output for 20-30 years.

Fracking business model in 2009-2012 was based on enormous cashflow from investors attracted by tall promises of natural gas bonanza. At the same time shale wells were considerably underperforming in dollar terms making the whole business a very risky venture. Lack of statistics was sugar coated by lucrative promises.]]></description>
<dc:subject>energy bubble public-policy financial-crisis startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:31dea8a223fc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://the-pastry-box-project.net/allen-tan/2013-august-22/">
    <title>The Pastry Box Project | 22 August 2013, baked by Allen Tan</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-22T22:20:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://the-pastry-box-project.net/allen-tan/2013-august-22/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Since when did this become weakness? Maybe these people’s biggest problem is needing more courage or less self-doubt, or maybe they’re just playing for entirely different stakes. If you don’t know for sure, then this is a failure of empathy.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>philosophy risk startup-culture-must-die cultural-assumptions academic-c</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:19adb01fb6a0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/ilargi-london-is-fracking-and-i-live-by-the-river.html">
    <title>Ilargi: London Is Fracking, And I Live By The River « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-13T12:59:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/ilargi-london-is-fracking-and-i-live-by-the-river.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s a state of mind, a way of thinking and a belief system bordering on outright religion all in one. If it would be recognized as a religion, it would be the world’s biggest. Its followers and proponents hold that growth is a necessary element of survival, that technology is capable of solving all problems (especially those caused by mankind), and that the earth, nature, the living environment, is there for mankind to be exploited at will to achieve that growth. What puts it so close to being a religion is that it doesn’t like to question it own assumptions, let alone have them questioned by others, and anyone who does so anyway is ostracized.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>startup-culture-must-die cultural-assumptions grim-meathook-future economics fracking</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b58556f58656/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:grim-meathook-future"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/on-the-decline-and-maybe-fall-of-venture-capital.html">
    <title>On the Decline and (Maybe) Fall of Venture Capital « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-12T13:10:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/on-the-decline-and-maybe-fall-of-venture-capital.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, venture capital is romanticized as one of the drivers of the American economy, when entrepreneurship expert Amar Bhide has ascertained that only about 1% of new ventures are funded by VC. A story today the Mercury News (hat tip bob) on how the poor performance of VC this year is part of a longer decline, raises bigger issues about the trajectory of the economy and the role of venture funders in it. It may simply be that (contrary to the McKinsey VC’s forecasts) funding levels have not fallen in line with the industry’s performance, and it needs to shrink further so that there aren’t too many investors chasing too few of the hot deals. It may also be that the VC industry is a casualty of the global financial crisis, in that individual investors remain skittish about the market, and their reservations are reinforced by high frequency trading, which leaves the little guy at a disadvantage. But predictably, even though the article makes it clear that the problems with VC are long-standing, many of the fund operators want to blame it on “uncertainty,” which at least on this coast, means the government.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>startup-culture-must-die venture-capital financial-crisis disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a94ca69c842b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/shock-doctrine-american-style-hurricane-sandy-devastation-used-to-push-for-sale-of-public-infrastructure-to-investors.html">
    <title>Shock Doctrine, American-Style: Hurricane Sandy Devastation Used to Push for Sale of Public Infrastructure to Investors « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-02T11:09:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/shock-doctrine-american-style-hurricane-sandy-devastation-used-to-push-for-sale-of-public-infrastructure-to-investors.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This approach makes about as much sense as using your house as an ATM to pay expenses, and in a worst-case scenario, is more like burning your furniture to heat the house. And even though we know how these movies are going to end, there’s hardly any reporting on these transactions, and thus even less opportunity than usual for the public to demand that its interests be protected. This is classic back-room dealing to the detriment of ordinary citizens, and there’s a good reason why. Making these deals make sense for the public would pretty much stop this gravy train, so it is essentially that they be kept in the dark. Disgracefully, media cheerleaders like Philly.com are only to willing to cooperate."]]></description>
<dc:subject>startup-culture-must-die privatization public-policy bookkeeping</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:23628e9a06bc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://bytbox.net/blog/2012/08/leaving-github.html">
    <title>Leaving Github :: IOTTMCO</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-13T14:17:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bytbox.net/blog/2012/08/leaving-github.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Protocols last a long time; ultimately, services like github and sourceforge are just fads, with very little (I think no) added value. The roller-coaster of hip fad after hip fad just isn’t for me. I suppose it can be fun to follow those fads and see where they lead, but history seems to show that innovations rarely come from them. Sourceforge didn’t make version control fundamentally better, and neither will github. Self-hosting is easy and cheap, I easily collaborate with people who prefer other solutions, and pushes take a quarter of a second. Goodbye, github."]]></description>
<dc:subject>monoculture risk GitHub essay dev-culture startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4ba42e80d71b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:essay"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://scripting.com/stories/2012/04/19/itsDefinitelyABubble.html">
    <title>Scripting News: It's definitely a bubble</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-20T09:46:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://scripting.com/stories/2012/04/19/itsDefinitelyABubble.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["They're turning universities into incubators. It's happening at NYU and Harvard, two schools I have some familiarity with. Probably everywhere else too, to some extent. But I'd guess these two schools are pretty leading edge. Stanford has been there for a few generations."]]></description>
<dc:subject>bubble entrepreneurship-as-pathology startup-culture-must-die ayup</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:bce38d2b80d2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ayup"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/10/groupon-eric-lefkofsky/">
    <title>The checkered past of Groupon's chairman - Fortune Tech</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-12T10:43:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/10/groupon-eric-lefkofsky/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lets start having fun... lets get funky... let's announce everything... let's be WILDLY positive in our forecasts... lets take this thing to the extreme... if we get wacked [sic] on the ride down-who gives a shit... THE TIME TO GET RADICAL IS NOW... WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE..."]]></description>
<dc:subject>startup-culture-must-die GroupOn entrepreneurship-as-pathology IPO via:nelson</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9151efc927db/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:entrepreneurship-as-pathology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:IPO"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:via:nelson"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/investing-in-the-cultural-revolution.html">
    <title>A VC: Investing In The Cultural Revolution</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-05T18:02:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/investing-in-the-cultural-revolution.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the middle east, we've seen the power of the Internet in the Arab Spring. I believe we are in for a lot more of that sort of thing and that it will not be limited to repressive governments, but to all large institutions that seek to control people and their free will. This is the cultural revolution that I referred to in my talk with Erick at Disrupt.

I think investors should be aware of what is coming and seek to invest in it where it is investable. I'm curious what the AVC community thinks of this investment thesis and where we should be looking for opportunities that fit into this thesis."]]></description>
<dc:subject>disruptive-technology internet investing venture-capital amusing disintermediation-targets startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d354e427bfb3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:investing"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:amusing"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/05/01/how-should-you-communicate-with-your-investors-between-board-meetings/">
    <title>How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-16T15:06:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/05/01/how-should-you-communicate-with-your-investors-between-board-meetings/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Think of it this way:  if having your development team work this way through sprints, why not board notes?  Meeting every 6-8 weeks with no interim communication is like the waterfall software development process!"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>agility venture-capital startups startup-culture-must-die entrepreneurship advice communication risk-management</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e482cec28dcf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startups"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2159-all-the-wrong-reasons-for-stack-overflows-vc-chase">
    <title>All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase - (37signals)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-18T13:47:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2159-all-the-wrong-reasons-for-stack-overflows-vc-chase</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Joel has decided to chase venture capital for StackOverflow, but I can’t exactly figure out why. He lists six benefits that just don’t compute under even light scrutiny"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>entrepreneurship-as-pathology venture-capital American-cultural-assumptions business-culture business-model-failure investment startup-culture-must-die VC hows-about-we-say-our-exit-strategy-is-success?</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a89fc31e7d48/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:venture-capital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:American-cultural-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-model-failure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:investment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:VC"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:hows-about-we-say-our-exit-strategy-is-success?"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.toomuchjoy.com/?p=1397">
    <title>Too Much Joy» Blog Archive » My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-03T00:34:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.toomuchjoy.com/?p=1397</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I mean, we all know that major labels are supposed to be venal masters of hiding money from artists, but they’re also supposed to be good at it, right? This figure wasn’t insulting because it was so small, it was insulting because it was so stupid."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:arsyed recording-industry contracts finance business startup-culture-must-die corporations intellectual-property disintermediation-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c2e3868bdd17/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:recording-industry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:contracts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://calacanis.com/2009/10/09/why-startups-shouldnt-have-to-pay-to-pitch-angel-investors/">
    <title>Why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors « The Jason Calacanis Weblog</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-04T15:10:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://calacanis.com/2009/10/09/why-startups-shouldnt-have-to-pay-to-pitch-angel-investors/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["However, if this is not done immediately, my group of startup CEOs and angel investors will begin targeting specific groups for elimination.
We will launch competing, fee-free events directly opposite your events. We will encourage angels investors, service providers and startups to boycott your events. You may even find our street teams outside your events handing out flyers.

This isn’t a joke and this is a threat: stop charging startup companies to present or we will do everything we can to put you out of business with a competing, free option."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>startup-culture-must-die venture-capital investment entrepreneurship-as-pathology business-culture entrepreneurship investing startup disintermediation-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1127579007c7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:venture-capital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:investment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:entrepreneurship-as-pathology"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:entrepreneurship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:investing"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.curiousraven.com/home/2009/10/30/venture-capital-and-augmented-reality.html">
    <title>Venture Capital and Augmented Reality - Home - From the mind of Robert Rice</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-04T14:46:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.curiousraven.com/home/2009/10/30/venture-capital-and-augmented-reality.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While some of my comments next may seem critical, they absolutely are and meant to be."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>venture-capital VC investment startup-culture-must-die augmented-reality venture entrepreneurship-as-pathology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ade2e28b94c4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:VC"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:investment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:augmented-reality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:venture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:entrepreneurship-as-pathology"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-valuation-tops-100-billion-after-bold-vc-investment">
    <title>PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT - (37signals)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-24T21:03:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-valuation-tops-100-billion-after-bold-vc-investment</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“37signals will lead the new global movement filled with imaginary assumptions on growth and monetization potential,” he continued. “We’re excited to roll out a list of unconfirmed revenue possibilities that involve crowdsourcing, a robust set of widget creation tools, 3G, augmented reality, social stuff, and an app store. Also, everything we make will include a compass.”"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>venture-capital startups startup-culture-must-die entrepreneurship-as-pathology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9b59de54e3a6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startups"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:entrepreneurship-as-pathology"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.businessinsider.com/crowd-sourcing-the-new-angel-investor-2009-8">
    <title>Crowd-Sourcing: The New Angel Investor</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-03T11:55:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.businessinsider.com/crowd-sourcing-the-new-angel-investor-2009-8</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Crowd-sourcing as a form of financing can range from syndicating many micro-investments to commissioning films by pitching the public in an online forum.

Here are a few companies RWW profiles in its article:"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>crowdsourcing entrepreneurship investment startups startup-culture-must-die disintermediation-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f850b5d0581d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:entrepreneurship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:investment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startups"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-targets"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20090726/SUB01/307269993/1068#">
    <title>Some VC leaders question flow to out-of-state companies - Detroit News and Information - Crain's Detroit Business</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-27T12:02:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20090726/SUB01/307269993/1068#</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Venture capital is where job creation will be, and venture capital is way behind private equity in developing critical mass in the state,” he said. “If you're really interested in building the Michigan economy, you do what is being done in Ohio and Oklahoma and other states: You spend Michigan money in Michigan.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>localism venture-capital startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:de3274ea65d7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startup-culture-must-die"/>
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