The Role of Desire in Entrepreneurship

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Like my Accountant is a role model to me for the level of like how organized I would like to be. He's been my accountant for 15 years and I have no idea what the man Watts are cared about. The models of desire are More important than what we typically think of as robots because they're modeling something that's deeper. You know he just affected me in a very short period of time in terms of like A lifestyle questions in ways that had nothing to do with building a business if that makes sense Look do you know how when people?

Luke Burgis joins the NIA boys to discuss Mimetic Desire, Thick vs. Thin Desires & Power of Memes.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:02:33) - Meme of the Week
(00:04:18) - Jack & Luke’s Collab
(00:06:07) - Visualizing Mimesis
(00:08:48) - Wanting’s Backstory
(00:10:33) - Meme Culture is Everywhere
(00:12:26) - TLDR of Mimetic Desire
(00:14:42) - Examples of Mimetic Desire
(00:18:46) - Mount Rushmore of Meme Masters
(00:22:39) - Role Models vs Models of Desire
(00:25:52) - The Power of Mimetics
(00:27:38) - Thick vs Thin Desires
(00:35:57) - Mimetic Rivalry Explained
(00:37:32) - Mimetic Desire is Natural
(00:40:45) - Optimize for Yourself
(00:48:26) - A.I. and Mimetic Desire
(00:52:51) - Chat GPT vs Bard
(00:53:46) - Generative Art and Society
(00:58:20) - The Stendhal Effect
(01:02:07) - Reacting to Twitter’s “For You” Algorithm
(01:05:17) - How Twitter’s Algorithm Works
(01:13:30) - Reacting to Twitter’s Verification Reception
(01:23:50) - Peter Theil and Mimetic Desire

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