#153 Beyond Mimetic Desires - Luke Burgis on the temptations of conformity, contemplating life in Starbucks, thick desires and thin desires, letting go of control, the importance of play, learning from different work cultures, his stay in Rome and becoming a father
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
The Dangers of Anti-Mimetic Right
There's this all kinds of like weird you know negative status signaling thing that entrepreneurs do it's like more successful you are like the simpler you dress and the simpler your car should be. The idea is to simply gain some freedom some like emotional spiritual mental freedom to just kind of unplug and be for a while just to come into contact with who we are, he says. He talks about taking a very long sabbatical which ended up lasting years in his book "The Gerard quilt"
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