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#126 Hearts on Fire - David Perell on curiosity, being a citizen of the internet, taking himself seriously, childhood obsessions, building Write of Passage, ambition, and money

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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Is Society a Big Company?

I was inspired by Burnham's book the managerial revolution from like 1948 and one of his ideas is that we're not moving to capitalism or socialism we're moving to this world that is run by managers and bureaucrats. I went on a hunting trip in West Texas must been a year and a half ago and we did four different hunts over over three days with no phones but there was a depth and a brotherhood on that trip. There is something about these big companies this managerial world that is soul crushing sold deadening, he says.

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