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Kevin Kelly On The Courage It Takes To Live Your Own Life

The Daily Stoic

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The Dangers of Contrarian Thinking in Silicon Valley

Mark Twain says whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority pause and reflect right He doesn't mean as a knee jerk reaction think the opposite of the crowd He's saying cause and reflect right most of the time. You should have a couple things that you're contrarian about right but it's not just I do the opposite of what most people do That's actually less Independent sure sure because you're almost being wrong on purpose right we were talking about how most of the Technology in the world is old Most of the things everybody knows are true. Carl Sagan said, you know they they They laughed at Galileo they laughed at Einstein and laughed at Bozo the clown Yeah, okay, so you

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