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Joab Rosenberg - Startups and Philosophy: Ep. 32

Good Faith Effort

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Is It a Coincidence That Mentao Is in Israeli Company?

In jewish tradition, at least in the talmutic tradition, it's really just people arguing with each other. So we kind of think of the people who are extremely argumentative as helping a lot to develop the knowledge. And on our platform, you don't just comment. You either ask for clarification because you didn't understand what i'm saying, or you say, i agree with you because of a, or i disagree with you becauseof b. Ouno: It seems to me like it's not an accident that mentao is in israeli company. Is there something sort of quintessentially israeli about mentao?

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For people like me, yeah, I think my vote is don't buy the Harry Potter game. Which sucks. I mean, it doesn't really suck for me, because Harry Potter hit when I was just old enough to not be interested in kids books anymore, but I wasn't yet mature enough to read a kids book that's good enough that everybody should read it, which is how lots of very smart people describe Harry Potter. I wouldn't know, I haven't read them. But I love Star Trek the next generation. Captain Picard is the most important fictional character in my life. He was probably my best fictional male role model growing up. If it came out, the Patrick Stewart was a creep. And my streaming of Star Trek was putting residual dollars directly into his creepy pocket that would crush me. Because creators don't really own their creations, right? We receive those creations and we integrate them into our own imaginations and our own life stories and cultures. Harry Potter is way bigger than JK Rowling. It belongs to you, the reader. It belongs to all the other creative people who worked on those books and the movies and the video games, some of whom are probably enablers of Rowling's shitty behavior, but most of whom have nothing to do with it, and they may have even denounced her shitty behavior, as Daniel Radcliffe did. I feel bad that Daniel Radcliffe seems to be a really decent guy, and yet the movie role he played as Harry Potter, which will be mentioned in the first line of his obituary, will always have this asterisk on it because JK Rowling is an unrepentant turf.

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